For other uses, see Committees of correspondence (disambiguation).
The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution. The brainchild of Samuel Adams, a Patriot from Boston, the committees sought to establish, through the writing of letters, an underground network of communication among Patriot leaders in the Thirteen Colonies. The committees were instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which convened in Philadelphia in September and October 1774.
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The CommitteesofCorrespondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) is a democratic socialist group in the United States that originated in 1991 as the...
The Committeeof Secret Correspondence was a committee formed by the Second Continental Congress and active from 1775 to 1776. The Committee played a large...
The Communist CorrespondenceCommittee (German: Kommunistisches Korrespondenz-Komitee) was an association of communists founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich...
the leaders, set up CommitteesofCorrespondence in parallel with their fellow Patriots in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Colony of Rhode Island and Rhode...
organization which had formed in 1991 out of the Green CommitteesofCorrespondence (CoC), a collection of local green groups active since 1984. In 2001...
sent through a network ofcommittees that recorded British activities and protested imperial policies. Committeesofcorrespondence soon formed in other...
The Association, a crucial step toward unification, empowered committeesofcorrespondence throughout the colonies to enforce the boycott. The Declaration...
representation, "virtual" or otherwise. Local protest groups established CommitteesofCorrespondence which created a loose coalition from New England to Maryland...
encourage colonists from the otherwise diverse colonies to form committeesofcorrespondence which sent delegates to the First Continental Congress. The Continental...
constitutions and governments. Committeesof safety were a later outcome of the committeesofcorrespondence. Committeesof safety were executive bodies...
of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the CommitteesofCorrespondence for...
7,000 to 8,000 Patriots served on CommitteesofCorrespondence at the colonial and local levels, comprising most of the leadership in their communities...
committeesofcorrespondence, which enabled leaders of each colony to keep in touch. One of the first actions of the Congress was the endorsement of the...
Continental Association on October 20, 1774. On August 26–27, 1774 the CommitteesofCorrespondence from Suffolk, Middlesex, Essex, and Worcester counties met at...
to Abigail Adams". The Adams Papers: Digital Editions: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 1. Massachusetts Historical Society. Archived from the original...
York and Connecticut, and the name of Sons of Libery was first used in Boston. January bore witness to a correspondence link between Boston and New York...
political struggles ended with the dissolution of the colonial assembly, and a new Conference ofCommittees under Thomas McKean authorized Pennsylvania's...
along with it. I will also throw in a set of free dishes and a case of soap." A number of anti-communist committees, panels, and "loyalty review boards" in...
Alamance in North Carolina (May 16) Samuel Adams organizes the CommitteesofCorrespondence Pine Tree Riot (April 13–14) The Watauga Association in what...
serving as military governor of Philadelphia, Arnold entered into treasonous correspondence with the British. He received command of the fort at West Point...
Constitution of the State of New York on April 20, 1777. The Committeeof Fifty-one was a committeeofcorrespondence in the City and County of New York that...
revolutionary committeesofcorrespondence in various colonies rather than through the colonial governments of the Thirteen Colonies. The Articles of Confederation...