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

Important also was the Albany Congress of 1754, in which delegates from seven colonies came together and discussed Benjamin Franklin's scheme for federating the thirteen colonies.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.

His postal duties took him as far south as Williamsburg, and the Albany Congress drew him as far north of New York as Albany.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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

The Albany Congress, 1754.—Open hostilities with their enemies became more and more frequent.

From Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James, J.A.

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