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Boston Committee of Correspondence records

Title: Boston Committee of Correspondence records, 1772-1784.
Author: Boston Committee of Correspondence.
Supplementary Content: Collection guide and digital images

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	r.4: Correspondence and proceedings, 1772-1775	Mixed material	By appointment only	*ZL-231 r.4: Correspondence and proceedings, 1772-1775	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	r.2: Correspondence and proceedings, 1772-1775	Mixed material	By appointment only	*ZL-231 r.2: Correspondence and proceedings, 1772-1775	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	r.1: Vols 1-12	Mixed material	By appointment only	*ZL-231 r.1: Vols 1-12	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Mixed material	By appointment only	*ZL-231	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Mixed material	By appointment only	*ZL-231	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Description

2.4 linear feet (8 boxes, 1 oversized folder), 4 microfilm reels

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Minutes books.

Access (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional Formats (note)

Available on microfilm;
Available as digital images.

Funding (note)

Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Source (note)

Purchased by the Lenox Library from the estate of George Bancroft, 1893.

Provenance (note)

The papers were originally held by Samuel Adams. They were passed on to Adams' grandson, Samuel Adams Wells. Wells later transferred the collection to historian George Bancroft.

Call Number

MssCol 343

OCLC

122466514
122466514

Author

Boston Committee of Correspondence.

Title

Boston Committee of Correspondence records, 1772-1784.

Restricted Access

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional Formats

Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-231

Available as digital images.

Summary

The Boston Committee of Correspondence was formed at the Boston Town Meeting of November 2, 1772 in response to the British government's decision to pay the governor and Superior Court judges of Massachusetts with Crown stipends, thereby making them dependent on the Crown rather than the people in assembly. With the participation of Samuel Adams and others, the Committee prepared statements of the colonists' rights and the violation of those rights by Great Britain, and sent them to other Massachusetts towns in pamphlet form, asking for their support and advice. In response to what became known as the Boston Pamphlet, similar committees formed in towns across Massachusetts and in other American colonies, helping to create a network of colonial communication ultimately leading to independence from Great Britain. The Boston Committee of Correspondence records, dated 1772-1784, document the Committee's initiatives in colonial political action in Massachusetts, from the writing of the Boston Pamphlet in November 1772 through the early months of war with Great Britain in 1775, as well as the Committee's contact with other colonies. The records also document its continued work as the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, 1777-1784, largely concerned with investigating suspected enemies of the American cause.

Funding

Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Provenance

The papers were originally held by Samuel Adams. They were passed on to Adams' grandson, Samuel Adams Wells. Wells later transferred the collection to historian George Bancroft.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Source

Purchased by the Lenox Library from the estate of George Bancroft, 1893.

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NYPL Digital Collections

Collection guide and digital images

Chronological Term

1775 - 1783

Occupation

Politicians.

Statesmen.

Added Author

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.

Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778.

Cooper, William, 1720-1809.

Otis, James, 1725-1783.

Quincy, Josiah, 1744-1775.

Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.

Young, Thomas, 1732-1777.

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