Albany Congress

American  

noun

American History.

1. a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan AlbanyPlanofUnion for unifying the colonies.

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Example Sentences

This was the question which the Albany Congress had tried to settle in 1754, and which the Federal Convention did settle in 1787.

From The War of Independence by Fiske, John

The best known of these plans was that presented to the Albany Congress of 1754, which had been called to make effective preparation for the inevitable struggle with the French and Indians.

From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Farrand, Max

Eleven years after the Albany Congress, upon the news that parliament had passed the Stamp Act, a congress of nine colonies assembled at New York in October, 1765, to take action thereon.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by Fiske, John

While the commissioners were conferring with the Indians in Albany, Congress was engaged in discussing the plans of a confederacy.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

It was he who had submitted the plan of union to the Albany Congress in 1754, which with modifications was recommended by that congress for adoption.

From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Farrand, Max