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 [[File:USCapitol1800.jpg|thumb|left|The [[United States Congress]] began assembling in the new [[United States Capitol]] in 1800 after the nation's capital was moved from [[Philadelphia]].]]
-[[List of capitals in the United States#National capitals|Nine cities served as capitals]] to the [[Continental Congress]] and under the [[Articles of Confederation]]. [[New York City]] was the first capital upon the adoption of the [[Constitution of the United States|Constitution]], succeeded by [[Philadelphia]], which was capital from 1790 to 1800.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The Nine Capitals of the United States |url=http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226113429/http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm |archive-date=2012-02-26 |access-date= |website=[[Senate.gov]]}}</ref>
+[[List of capitals in the United States#National capitals|Nine cities served as capitals]] to the [[Continental Congress]] and under the [[Articles of Confederation]]. New York City was the first capital upon the adoption of the [[Constitution of the United States|Constitution]], succeeded by [[Philadelphia]], which was capital from 1790 to 1800.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The Nine Capitals of the United States |url=http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226113429/http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm |archive-date=2012-02-26 |access-date= |website=[[Senate.gov]]}}</ref>
 On October 6, 1783, after the capital was forced by the [[Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783]] to move to Princeton, Congress resolved to consider a new location for it.<ref name="JCC120">{{cite journal |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=025%2Flljc025.db&recNum=120&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28jc02530%29%29%230250129&linkText=1 |journal=Journals of the Continental Congress |date=October 1783 |page=647 |title=October 6, 1783 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]: [[American Memory]] |access-date=January 14, 2022 |archive-date=January 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115011035/https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=025%2Flljc025.db&recNum=120&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28jc02530%29%29%230250129&linkText=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The following day, [[Elbridge Gerry]] of Massachusetts moved "that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the [[Delaware River|Delaware]] near [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]], or of the [[Potomac River|Potomac]], near [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]], provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town".<ref name="JCC127">{{cite journal |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=025%2Flljc025.db&recNum=127&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28jc02530%29%29%230250129&linkText=1 |journal=Journals of the Continental Congress |date=October 1783 |page=654 |title=October 7, 1783 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]: [[American Memory]] |access-date=January 14, 2022 |archive-date=January 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114184055/https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=025%2Flljc025.db&recNum=127&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28jc02530%29%29%230250129&linkText=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>