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Presidents of the Continental Congress
<blockquote>The Congress met, and opened with a Prayer made by the Rev. Mr. Deshay [Duché] which it was worth riding one hundred miles to hear. He read the Lessons of the day, which were accidentally extremely applicable, and then prayed without book about ten minutes so pertinently, with such fervency, purity and sublimity of style and sentiment, and with such an apparent sensibility of the scenes and business before us, that even Quakers shed tears. The thanks of the Congress were most unanimously returned him by a select honorable committee.<ref>[http://www.silasdeaneonline.org/documents/doc09.htm S. Deane to Elizabeth Deane
<blockquote>The Congress met, and opened with a Prayer made by the Rev. Mr. Deshay [Duché] which it was worth riding one hundred miles to hear. He read the Lessons of the day, which were accidentally extremely applicable, and then prayed without book about ten minutes so pertinently, with such fervency, purity and sublimity of style and sentiment, and with such an apparent sensibility of the scenes and business before us, that even Quakers shed tears. The thanks of the Congress were most unanimously returned him by a select honorable committee.<ref>[http://www.silasdeaneonline.org/documents/doc09.htm S. Deane to Elizabeth Deane
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==Presidents of the Continental Congress==
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | Congress
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" |
|-
| First Continental Congress || Peyton Randolph || Henry Middleton
|-
| Second Continental Congress || Peyton Randolph || [[John Hancock]] || Henry Laurens || [[John Jay]] || [[Samuel Huntington]]
|-
| Confederation Congress || [[Samuel Huntington]] || [[Thomas McKean]] || [[John Hanson]] || [[Elias Boudinot]] || [[Thomas Mifflin]]
|-
| || [[Richard Henry Lee]] || [[John Hancock]] || [[Nathaniel Gorham]] || Arthur St. Clair || Cyrus Griffin
|}
==Further reading==
==Further reading==