USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The committees of correspondence functioned mainly as a means of spreading news and information about the Patriot cause and mobilizing opposition to British policies in cities, towns and rural communities throughout the colonies.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 2 November 1772, a committee is born when the Boston selectmen vote to establish a twenty-one-member Committee of Correspondence. The Committee’s first assignment is to prepare a series of reports outlining colonists’ rights and Parliament’s infringements upon those rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first standing Committee of Correspondence was formed by Samuel Adams and twenty other Patriot leaders in November of 1772 in Boston in response to the Gaspée Affair, which had occurred the previous June in the colony of Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two of them-Hugh Montgomery and Matthew Kilroy-were found guilty of manslaughter and were branded on the thumbs as first offenders per English law.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists’ desire for American independence, while the dead rioters became martyrs for liberty.