This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
First United States Congress A Century and Half Ago
Four-score men from every state traveled to New York in 1789 to open the new Congress under the Constitution. They faced a nation still fearing war with Britain and Indian threats, yet forged foundational policies including the Bill of Rights, the federal judiciary, a national bank, a mint, a tariff, and the site of a future capital, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O Ie
Raymond Pitcairny
Congress of
United States
Richard Henry Lee
Robert Morris
Charles Carroll
Rufus King
Roger Sherman
Pierce Butler
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
New York
Philadelphia
Congress
England
United Tates Congress
State
Treasury
War
Henry Knox
Supreme Court
Potomac
Washington
Young Republic
Eas
Ily
Hamilton
Jefferson
John Adams
Lst
Lincoln
Benjamin Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Congress of the
Independence Square
America
T, Vernon
Capitol Hill
Ellsworth
Connecticut
The
James Madison
Republic
Secretaries of State
John Jay
Journal of the First Congress of the