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The First Provincial Congress of delegates from the towns of Massachusetts was called by conventions of the people to meet at Concord on the eleventh day of October 1774. The delegates assembled in the Meeting-House on that day and organized with John Hancock as President and Benjamin Lincoln as secretary. Called together to maintain the rights of the people, this Congress assumed the government of the province and by its measures prepared the way for the War of the Revolution.
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Concord, Massachusetts · United States
