Albany Plan

Franklin was president, though not formally a party to it.

A few days later, the Congress adopted a plan of union that Franklin wrote out the final draft.

The editors of Franklin's papers trace its models not to the Six Nation, but to the New England Confederation of sixteen forty-three.

And every colonial assembly that looked at the Albany plan turned it down.

A few years later, the Old Dominion cooperated loyally with the Carolinas in defending their borders against Indian forays.

The Albany Plan of Union An attempt at a general colonial union was made in 1754.

On the suggestion of the Lords of Trade in England, a conference was held at Albany to consider Indian relations, to devise measures of defense against the French, and to enter into articles of union and confederation for the general defense of His Majesty's subjects and interests in North America as well in time of peace as of war.

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were represented.

principles that would, that would form and shape their government.

And indeed, it was Franklin who would attempt to bring the colonies together in, uh, in his Albany Plan of Unity.

This was prior to the, to the French and, and Indian War.

He, he knew the war was coming.

The Second Continental Congress had hardly opened its work before the most sagacious leaders began to urge the desirability of a permanent connection.

As early as July 1775, Congress resolved to go into a committee of the whole on the State and the Union, and Franklin, undaunted by the fate of his Albany Plan of twenty years before, again presented a draft of a Constitution.

Long and desultory debates followed, and it was not until late in 1777 that Congress presented to the states the Articles of Confederation.

Provincial jealousies delayed ratification, and it was the spring of 1781, a few months before the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, when Maryland, the last of the states, approved the Articles.

In 1684 delegates from Virginia met at Albany with the agents of New York and Massachusetts to discuss problems of mutual defense.

a few years later the old dominion co-operated loyally with the carolinas in defending their borders against indian forays the albany plan of union an attempt at a general colonial union was made in seventeen fifty four on the suggestion of the lords of trade in england A conference was held at Albany to consider Indian relations, to devise measures of defense against the French, and to enter into Articles of Union and Confederation for the general defense of His Majesty's subjects and interests in North America, as well in time of peace as of war.

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were represented.

After a long discussion, a plan of union, drafted mainly, it seems, by Benjamin Franklin, was adopted and sent to the colonies and the crown for approval.