This meeting, chaired by James DeLancey, was called by the British Board of Trade and it resulted in a document calling for a Grand Council and a President-General.
This meeting, chaired by James DeLancey, was called by the British Board of Trade and it resulted in a document calling for a Grand Council and a President-General. It attempted to pacify the Iroquois Confederacy. Only seven colonies sent representatives, and its resultant document was rejected by the colonial legislatures. That plan would have united all the colonies except Delaware and Georgia, and was its Plan of Union, created by Ben Franklin. FTP, name this 1754 meeting of representatives from the American colonies in New York.
This meeting, chaired by James DeLancey, was called by the British Board of Trade and it resulted in a document calling for a Grand Council and a President-General.
{Albany Congress}