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
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