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Committees of Correspondence

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Committees of Correspondence

Groups appointed by the legislatures of all 13 American colonies to provide a means of intercolonial communication. The first standing group was formed by Samuel Adams in Boston (1772), and within three months 80 others were formed in Massachusetts. In 1773 Virginia organized a committee with 11 members, including Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The committees were instrumental in promoting colonial unity and in summoning the First Continental Congress in 1774.



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Committees of Correspondence were established throughout the American colonies in the 1770s to provide a means for the widely scattered colonists to collaborate in preserving their historic freedoms from the increasingly tyrannical actions of the British government.
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In 1772, town meetings in Massachusetts began setting up Committees of Correspondence, and the following year, such a committee was set up in Virginia.
 
 
 
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