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The capital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, rivalled New York in the seventeenth century as a centre of commerce.
Philadelphia in the 17th century:
- Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, centrally located on the Atlantic seaboard, and the most populous city in the colonies in 1776, Philadelphia was also the seat of the Continental Congress.
- By default, it became the national capital when on 4 July Congress issued the Declaration of Independence.
- In the midst of a revolutionary war, Americans never deliberated on the appropriateness of Philadelphia as the capital city for the fledgling nation, nor would they for at least another decade.
- Few Americans took notice when the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777; the rump Congress simply fled to Lancaster, some forty miles to the interior.
- Over the ensuing seven years the Continental and then Confederation Congress met in York, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and again in Philadelphia.
- After adjourning on Christmas Eve in 1784, the peripatetic Confederation Congress finally removed to New York City, where it met for the remainder of its existence.
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