Boston, April 9, 1773: Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of this Town have received the following intelligence ...
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Virginia's House of Burgesses—the colony's legislative assembly—proposes an expansion of the committee of correspondence network, to share information about "acts and resolutions of the British parliament...as may relate to, or affect the British colonies in America, and to keep up and maintain a correspondence and communication with our sister colonies." Boston, 1773 Circular letter "signed by direction of the Committee for Correspondence in Boston, William Cooper, town clerk ..."
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