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"Provincial Congress" can refer to one of several extra-legal legislative bodies established in some of the Thirteen Colonies early in the American Revolution. These bodies were generally renamed or replaced with other bodies when the provinces declared themselves states.

They include:

• Massachusetts Provincial Congress
• North Carolina Provincial Congress
• New York Provincial Congress
• Provincial Congress of New Jersey
• South Carolina Provincial Congress
• Georgia Provincial Congress
• New Hampshire Provincial Congress

Analogous bodies include:

• Annapolis Convention (1774–1776)
• Virginia Conventions