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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4512561, member: 19165&quot;]The claim that it was the first capital is based exclusively on the fact that the Articles of Confederation were drafted during a brief meeting of the Second Continental Congress in York. They weren&#039;t even ratified there - that happened in what most of us would consider the true capital during the Revolution, in Philadelphia.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a Second congress, then that means you had to have a first. They met in Philadelphia. Even the Second Congress primarily (and initially) met in Philadelphia (where they wrote the Declaration of Independence.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d call York more of &quot;one of the locations that the Congress adjourned&quot; than a capital in any way. The moved around a bit to avoid capture by the British - but they started in Philadelphia. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States#Capitals_of_the_U.S" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States#Capitals_of_the_U.S" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States#Capitals_of_the_U.S</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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