Pennsylvania Provincial Conference
The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference, officially the Provincial Conference of Committees of the Province of Pennsylvania, was a Provincial Congress held June 18–25, 1776 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. The 97 delegates in attendance involved themselves in issues relating to declaring Pennsylvania's support for independence and to planning for a subsequent gathering that would develop Pennsylvania's new Frame of Government. They achieved these objectives by formally:Declaring Pennsylvania's independence from the British Empire, thus birthing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Mobilizing the Pennsylvania militia for the American Revolutionary War,
Organizing elections to select delegates to a constitutional convention – which framed the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.
Pennsylvania Provincial Conference
Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States. Completed in 1775, the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and still privately owned by the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the country's oldest extant craft guild.
Carpenters' Hall in May 2015
An 1891 illustration of Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia
Carpeneters' Company frontispiece
Carpenters' Hall