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Committees of Correspondence (sh)




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.