On this day 250 years ago, the North Carolina Committee of Correspondence forwarded the letter and package from the Boston Committee that it received from the Virginia Committee to the South Carolina and Georgia Committees of Correspondence. The North Carolina Committee stated that they considered “the cause of the town of Boston as the cause of America in general” and

That in order that there may be a conformity and unanimity in the Councils of America, it is absolutely necessary and expedient that deputies be appointed by the several Colonies to meet and deliberate on all measures that may be deemed necessary to the support of the general interest.

That in case the Governors of the different Colonies should refuse or decline to call an Assembly of the Representatives of the people that they should in pursuance of the laudable example of the respectable members of the late House of Burgesses of Virginia meet and form associations to consider the most probable means of defeating and counteracting every attack on the rights of the Colonies in general, or any of them,

Source: https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr11-0117