<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Meeting place </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> mainly at Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from December 1776 to July 1778 various locations, see below </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Footnotes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> There were about 50 members of the Congress at any given time, but it was the colonies themselves that had voting privileges so there were effectively only 13 seats . </Td> </Tr>

Who presided over the second continental congress that adopted the declaration of independence