The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.hen the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress.
Mary Stallings (born August 16, 1939 in San Francisco) is an American jazz vocalist and mother of Adriana Evans.
Mary Rowlandson, nÃ©e White, later Mary Talcott was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published. This text is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and garnered ...