Question

what group of colonial representatives decided to offer peace to great british and then governed the colonies throughout the war

Answer 1

Continental Congress

Explanation:

The First Continental Congress

On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies—except Georgia, which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies—met at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts) recently passed by the British Parliament.