On this day 250 years ago, the Connecticut House of Representatives elected Roger Sherman, Silas Deane and Eliphalet Dyer as Delegates to the First Continental Congress, making Connecticut the first colony to select its delegates. Sherman, Deane and Dyer would subsequently serve in the Second Continental Congress. Deane would go on to spend much of the Revolution representing the United States as a diplomat in Europe. Roger Sherman was the only Founding Father who would sign all four documents that established the United States of America: the Articles of Association in 1774; the Declaration of Independence in 1776; the Articles of Confederation in 1778; and the Constitution in 1787.

Sources: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/first-continental-congress-facts/; https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/roger-sherman-architect-of-the-great-compromise/