Background
The Congress spent much of its time discussing and debating the Albany Plan, recommended by a committee that reviewed the different plans offered by delegates; its members chose Franklin's plan, with some small modifications. Benjamin Chew, then a young lawyer from Dover, Pennsylvania who served as secretary; Richard Peters, and Isaac Norris, both from Philadelphia, were among the members of this committee and the Pennsylvania delegation.
It went beyond the original scope of the Congress, which was to develop a plan of defense related to near-term threats by France. The northern colonies were most concerned, as they shared a border with the French colony in Canada, but the mid-Atlantic colonies were also affected by differing loyalties of various Native American nations, usually related to their trading with France or Great Britain. The New England and northern tier colonies had long been subject to raiding from Canada during times of conflict.
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