Date of this Version
Hill, Michael R. 1999. “Continental Congress.” (Congress of 1774 and Congress of 1775). Pp. 332-334 in The Encyclopedia of North American History, edited by John C. Super. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish.
The convening of the First Continent
The network of committees throughout Massachusetts had become firmly established by early 1773, and dissidents in other colonies rapidly imitated the Massachusetts pattern. The committees of correspondence provided a model and a working mechanism for revolutionary agitation and organization on a national scale.