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==__**Peter Salem**__: African American who fught at the battel of bunker hill with the minutemen in concord.==

Salem was named by Belknap for his own hometown of Salem, Massachusetts.
==He made a living by weaving and making baskets and by making and weaving cane bottoms for chairs.== ==In 1783, he married Katy Benson. Salem died in the poorhouse in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1816. He is buried in the Old Burying Ground.==

__**Second Continental Congress:**__
==The **Second Continental Congress** was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.The Second Continental Congress was presided over by John Hancock.==