Editing Committees of correspondence (section)

===Other colonies===
By July 1773, [[Rhode Island]], [[Connecticut]], [[New Hampshire]], and [[South Carolina]] had also formed committees.

With Pennsylvania's action in May 1774, all of the colonies that eventually rebelled had established such committees.<ref>[[#Ketchum|Ketchum (2002)]], p. 245.</ref>

The colonial committees successfully organized common resistance to the [[Tea Act]] and even recruited physicians who would write that drinking tea would make Americans "weak, effeminate, and [[wikt:valetudinarian|valetudinarian]] for life."

These permanent committees performed the important planning necessary for the [[First Continental Congress]], which convened in September 1774. The Second Congress created its own committee of correspondence to communicate the American interpretation of events to foreign nations.

These committees were replaced during the revolution with [[Provincial Congress]]es.

By 1780, committees of correspondence had also been formed in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]].<ref>[[#Puls|Puls (2006)]], p. 206.</ref>