Adams persuades Massachusetts colleagues to approve a committee of correspondence
- When
- November 1772
- Where
- Province of Massachusetts Bay
Samuel Adams persuaded his legislative colleagues to approve his plan for a committee of correspondence addressing mutual colonial problems with the United Kingdom.
The legacy row dated April 8, 1772 in Boston is not corroborated by any supplied passage; the sourced formation occurred in November 1772 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Adams and his colleagues devised the system to coordinate resistance to British attempts to violate the British Constitution at the colonies' expense, linking like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies.
Sources
- Samuel Adams Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27
- Committees of correspondence Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-21
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