On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia House of Burgesses (often referred to as “the Assembly” then as it is now) convened one day late, having failed to achieve the required quorum of 50 members the previous day when the session was scheduled to begin. As one of the actions on the first day of the session, the Assembly’s Committee of Correspondence presented to the entire Assembly the responses that had been received over the past year from the other 12 Colonies to the Assembly’s recommendation in March 1773 that each colony form its own committee of correspondence to coordinate resistance to British misrule. All of the other colonies but one had reported that they accepted Virginia’s recommendation and had formed a committee of correspondence, and Pennsylvania would do so by the end of the month. Virginia’s Committee of Correspondence comprised Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Bland, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton, Patrick Henry, Dudley Digges, Archibald Cary, and Thomas Jefferson; all of whom would become Patriot leaders during the Revolution and several of whom are of course recognized as America’s Founding Fathers.

Sources: https://www.newrivernotes.com/early-revolutionary-history-of-virginia-1773-1774/

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