On this day 250 years ago, John Cruger, Jr., Speaker of the General Assembly of New York, transmits to the Virginia Committee of Correspondence, the New York Assembly’s resolutions of January 20, 1774 appointing a Committee of Correspondence and adding that “I am also directed to return their thanks to the Burgesses of the ancient colony and Dominion of Virginia for their early attention to the Rights and Liberties of America.”

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