Editing Committees of correspondence (section)

===Pennsylvania===
{{Further|Province of Pennsylvania}}
Among the last to form a committee of correspondence, the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] did so at a meeting in [[Philadelphia]] on May 20, 1774. In a compromise between the more radical and more conservative factions of political activists, the committee was formed by combining the lists each faction proposed. That committee of 19 diversified and grew to 43, then to 66, and finally to two different groups of 100 between May 1774 and its dissolution in September 1776. Ultimately, 160 men from Pennsylvania participated in one or more of the committees, though only four were regularly elected to all of them: [[Thomas Barclay (diplomat)|Thomas Barclay]], John Cox Jr., [[John Dickinson]], and [[Joseph Reed (politician)|Joseph Reed]].<ref>[[#Ryerson|Ryerson (1978)]], pp. 39–42, 49–52, 94–100, 128–131, 156–159, 275–281.</ref>