The Encyclopedia Britannica online entry says that
"Samuel Adams organized the first group at Boston in November 1772, and
within three months 80 others had been formed locally in Massachusetts. In
March 1773 Virginia organized legislative standing committees for
intercolonial correspondence,"

Still, does anyone else share my really vague lingering recollection that
'committees of correspondence' may also have been created in connection with
the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 ?
-- 
Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Maass, John R Dr CMH <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If 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, doesn't this imply that there were ALREADY other
> committees with which Va. Was to correspond, and therefore, Va. Could
> not have been first?
>
> John R. Maass, Ph.D.
> Historian, Contemporary Studies Branch
> US Army Center of Military History
> 103 Third Ave.
> Ft. McNair, D.C. 20319
> 202-685-2337
>
> "Nec Aspera Terrent"
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:52 PM
> 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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