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Dear Mr. Dixon,
Have you received any reply to your timeline observation?
The "sketchy" information I have indicates that Massachusetts "owns" the title of: "the originator of the
Committees of Correspondence" - for whatever that might be worth.
Regards, Ray
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Subject: committees of correspondence
There is in the museum at Montpelier a timeline which credits Massachusetts as the originator of the Committees of
Correspondence. In the Restored Capitol at Williams burg is a plaque which reads:
Here, March 12, 1773, Dabney Carr offered, and the House of Burgesses of Virginia unanimously adopted, the
resolution to appoint a committee to correspond with similar committees in other countries - the first step taken
towards the union of the States.
This is apparently an issue between Massachusetts and Virginia. Is there a definitive answer which was first?
Richard E. Dixon
Editor, Jefferson Notes
Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
4122 Leonard Drive
Fairfax, Va 22030
703-691-0770 fax 703-691-0978
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