Editing Committees of correspondence (section)

===North Carolina===
{{Further|Province of North Carolina}}
By 1773, the political situation had deteriorated. There was concern about the courts. Massachusetts' young and ardent Boston patriot, [[Josiah Quincy II|Josiah Quincy Jr.]],<ref name="Lossing">[[#Lossing|Lossing (1855)]], p. 83.</ref> visited North Carolina for five days. He spent the night of March 26, 1773, at [[Cornelius Harnett]]'s home near [[Wilmington, North Carolina]]. The two discussed and drew up plans for a Committee of Correspondence. The committee's purpose: communicate circumstances and revolutionary sentiment among the colonies. It was after this meeting that Quincy dubbed Harnett the "Samuel Adams of North Carolina."<ref name="Wells">[[#Wells|Wells (1865)]], p. 421.</ref><ref name="Maier78_6_7">[[#Maier78|Maier (1978)]], pp. 6–7.</ref>

In December 1773, the North Carolina Committee of Correspondence formed in Wilmington. Although Harnett was absent, he was made chairman of the committee.  Other members included  [[John Harvey (North Carolina politician)|John Harvey]], [[Robert Howe (Continental Army officer)|Robert Howe]], [[Richard Caswell]], [[Edward Vail]], [[John Baptista Ashe (Continental Congress)|John Ashe]], [[Joseph Hewes]], [[Samuel Johnston]], and [[William Hooper]].<ref>[[#Daniels|Daniels (1986)]], p. 5.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/committees-correspondence|title=Committees of Correspondence (North Carolina)|website=ncpedia.org|author=Smith, Carmen Miner|year=2006|access-date=October 31, 2019}}</ref>