Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . d the First Continental Con-gress met there. On September 5, 1774, the delegates from eleven Provinces, who hadbeen summoned to take defensive measures, arrived in the city, and assem-208 CARPENTERS 209 bled, for want of a better place, at tbe Old City Tavern, then on Secondstreet, above Walnut. While tbe delegates were there word was broughtthat the use of Carpenters Hall had been offered by the company, and theCongress approved the offer and adjourned to the then new ha
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . d the First Continental Con-gress met there. On September 5, 1774, the delegates from eleven Provinces, who hadbeen summoned to take defensive measures, arrived in the city, and assem-208 CARPENTERS 209 bled, for want of a better place, at tbe Old City Tavern, then on Secondstreet, above Walnut. While tbe delegates were there word was broughtthat the use of Carpenters Hall had been offered by the company, and theCongress approved the offer and adjourned to the then new hall. Herethe Continental Congress remained until October 26, when, the StateHouse being put at their disposal, they finished their memorable firstsession in the larger building, where liberty was yet to be cradled. In the First Continental Congress were some of the greatest menin the country. men whoselames are fore-iiost in our his-ory as a nation,aid men worthyof all the praiseLord Chathambestowed uponlliem. AmongI hem wereWashington,Patrick Henry,flichard HenryLee and PeytonRandolph, ofVirginia; Mifilin, Ross. CARPENTERS HALL, PHILADELPHIA. and Dickinson, of Pennsylvania; the twoAdrmses, from Massachusetts, and Charles Thomson, who was Congress assembled in the first story of the hall, and there theRev. Dr. Duche offered his celebrated prayer and read the collect of theday, the XXXVth Psalm, which latter seemed so appropriate. The Philadelphia Library occupied the second floor of the buildingfrom 1775 until 1791, when it removed to its new building on Fifth street,and during the Revolution the library was used as a hospital for the British occupancy of the city, in 1777, the soldiers used thebuilding, as they did all public edifices in Philadelphia. In 1827 a Hicksite Society of Friends used the Hall as a meeting house, and then for many years the first floor was an auction room. The Carpenters Company resumed possession of their old building m 1
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