| Description | "Private", "Our patriots say that the votes of the town of Boston which they sent to Virginia have produced the resolves of the Assembly there appointing a committee of correspondence, and I have no doubt it is their expectation that a committee for the same purpose will be appointed by most of the other Assemblies upon the Continent, if anything therefore be done by Parliament respecting America, it now seems necessary that it should be general and not confined to particular Colonies, as the same spirit prevails everywhere, though not in like degree"
For full description see HMC Calendar (11th Report Appendix 5), 1887, available for consultation at the Staffordshire Record Office and at the William Salt Library, Stafford |