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Read this short account of the 1774 Boston Committee of Correspondence ... In 1774 the Boston Committee of Correspondence had invited the committees of nine towns in the vicinity to a conference "on the critical state of public affairs." They had come with alacrity, and with hundreds of the yeomanry had joined the...
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The role of Committees of Correspondence in the history of the United States of America. ... The first formal committee of correspondence was established in Boston in 1764 and was charged with rallying opposition to the recently enacted Currency Act and the unpopular reforms imposed on the customs service.
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We have just received the copy of an Act of the British Parliament passed in the present session whereby the town of Boston is treated in a manner the most ignominious, cruel, and unjust.
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Boston Committee of Correspondence. (1783) ... Boston, April 9, 1773 : Sir, the Committee of Correspondence of this town have received the following Intelligence, communicated to them by a person of character in this Place. ... Boston Committee of Correspondence. (Edes and Gill, 1775)
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Search Books by subject:; History; Politics & government; Unassigned Title; Political Science / Political Process / General; Practical Politics; Boston (Mass.); Boston Committee of Correspond; Boston Committee of Correspondence; Massachusetts; Politics and government; To 1775; Politics: General & Reference;
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Committees of Correspondence Groups appointed by the legislatures of all 13 American colonies to provide a means of intercolonial communication ... Brown, Richard D. Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772–1774. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
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Boston Committee of Correspondence The American colonies inherited a tradition of forming citizen committees to deal with various common problems ... Brown, Richard D. Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772–1774. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
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The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston town meeting, Nov. 20, 1772. ... ; The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772; Old South Leaflets no. 173 (Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, 1906) 7: 417-428. Hanover Historical Texts Project;
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More positive news arrives from the "patriotic province of Virginia" in the spring of 1773. The House of Burgesses proposes some enhancements to Boston's committee of correspondence idea. In response to Virginia's proposal, Massachusetts creates a colony-level committee of correspondence chaired by Samuel Adams.
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