. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. VJ~0 American citizen should remain contentedly ignorant of-L^l the history of the District of Columbia, and of the eventswhich led to its selection for the permanent seat of the FederalGovernment. The Continental Congress opened its first session in Philadel-phia, Pa., Sept. 5, 1774, and the succeeding year it also met inthat city. For several seasons the fortune of war caused itsmigration from place to place. In Dec. 20, 1776, it met in Bal-timore ; but again, March 4, 1777, it met in Philadelphia. InSept. 2
. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. VJ~0 American citizen should remain contentedly ignorant of-L^l the history of the District of Columbia, and of the eventswhich led to its selection for the permanent seat of the FederalGovernment. The Continental Congress opened its first session in Philadel-phia, Pa., Sept. 5, 1774, and the succeeding year it also met inthat city. For several seasons the fortune of war caused itsmigration from place to place. In Dec. 20, 1776, it met in Bal-timore ; but again, March 4, 1777, it met in Philadelphia. InSept. 27, 1777, it convened at Lancaster, Pa., and Sept. 30, 1777,at York, Pa. July 2, 1778, it returned to Philadelphia, where itcontinued to meet until 1783, when it was expelled by a mob,which the State authorities did not suppress. Congress thenadjourned to Princeton, N. J., June 30, 1783. Nov. 26, 1783, itmet at Annapolis, Md.; and it was while in session here thatGen. Washington, Dec. 23, resigned his commission as general-in-chief of the army at the clos
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