Venue Carpenter's Hall | Location Philadelphia | |
Date June 18–25, 1776 (1776-06-18 – 1776-06-25) Type Meeting of pro-independent state activist Outcome Ratified the May 15 Resolution of the Continental Congress | ||
The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference (June 18–25, 1776) was a meeting of pro-independent state activist who ratified the May 15 Resolution of the Continental Congress and planned the mobilization of state militias. Meeting in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia they contributed significantly to the growing political movement in the Colonies against King George III. Since Pennsylvania was especially reluctant to rebel compared to most of the other Colonies, the declared support for the May 15 Resolution by its committeemen and its published declaration of independence became the last great revolutionary event preceding national independence by Congress the following month. Their resulting document - Provincial Conference of Committees, of the Province of Pennsylvania - anticipated the character of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence in its forceful vitriol against the King.