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

The most important of the early congresses was the Albany Congress of 1754.

From A Short History of the United States by Channing, Edward

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

After the Albany Congress of 1754 Franklin urged the formation of two barrier colonies in the West.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

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

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