Answer: Sept 1774 12 delegates met in Philly. Only Georgia didn't come.
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania between September 5 and October 26 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. It met from September 5 to October 26 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania after the British Navy instituted a blockade of Boston Harbor and Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the December 1773 Boston Tea Party.
The First Continental Congress From 1774 to 1789 the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. Live TV
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people by the colonial legislatures or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.
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In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on September 5 1774 at the Carpenters Hall which happened to be the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. The meeting was kept secret as the colonies didn't want the British to know about it.
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