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Connecticut: Continental Congress

Delegates to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-88 (May be incomplete!)
Joseph P. Cooke 177? Silas Deane 1774-76 Eliphalet Dyer 1774-79 Roger Sherman 1774-81 Jonathan Sturges 1774 Joseph Trumbull 1774 Titus Hosmer 1775-76 Oliver Wolcott, Sr. 1775-78 Samuel Huntington 1776-84 William Williams 1776- Andrew Adams 1777-82 Oliver Ellsworth 1777-84 Titus Hosmer 1777-79 Richard Law 1778- Jesse Root 1778-83 Joseph Spencer 1778- Eliphalet Dyer 1780-83 Benjamin Huntington 1780-84 Oliver Wolcott, Sr. 1780-84 Jedediah Strong 1782-84 William Hillhouse 1783-86 Richard Law 1783-84 Stephen M. Mitchell 1783-88 Roger Sherman 1783-84 James Wadsworth 1783- Joseph P. Cooke 1784-88 William Samuel Johnson 1784-87 John Treadwell 1784-87 Pierpont Edwards 1787-88 Benjamin Huntington 1787-88 Jeremiah Wadsworth 1788

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