The Congress met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 Peyton Randolph presided over the proceedings; Henry Middleton took over as President of the Congress for the last few days, from October 22 to October 26.
Rhoads shared the revolutionary sentiment spreading through the city in the 1770s and was a delegate to the First Continental Congress.
He rejected his election to the First Continental Congress, a move strongly criticized by the Patriots, who removed him from his militia command.
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In later years, the house was the temporary abode of John Adams, John Hancock, and many other distinguished members of the First Continental Congress, and also of Baron Johann de Kalb, who fell, fighting for American independence, at the Battle of Camden.