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Congress Relocates to York
- When
- 1777
- Where
- Temporary seat of the Continental Congress
To evade advancing British troops, Congress left Philadelphia in fall 1777 for Lancaster and then York, Pennsylvania, where it would finalize the Articles.
While work on the constitution was underway, Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia twice: first to Baltimore, Maryland, in the winter of 1776, and later to Lancaster and then York, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1777, to evade advancing British troops. This relocation placed the Congress in York when it completed the Articles of Confederation in November 1777.
Sources
- Articles of Confederation Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-30
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