Committees of Correspondence Date
Committees of Correspondence Date
Committees of Correspondence,
Groups assigned by the authorities in the 13 UK US colonies to provide colonial situation and aid neocolonial cooperation. Samuel Adams organized the first group at Boston in Nov. 1772, and within 3 months 80 others had been formed locally in Massachusetts. In Mar.1773 Virginia organized legislative commissions for intercolonial agreement, with Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry among their total 11 members. The committees played a major role in encouraging colonial unity and in summoning in Sep. 1774 the First Continental Congress, a majority of whose delegates were committee members.
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The date was 1773.
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