Letter (draft), 1773 July 4, Boston, to Erastus Wolcott and others of the Committee of Correspondence in Connecticut.

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Letter (draft), 1773 July 4, Boston, to Erastus Wolcott and others of the Committee of Correspondence in Connecticut.

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At the request of the Connecticut committee, the Boston committee sends attested copies of three letters by Thomas Moffat and printed copies of letters by Governor Thomas Hutchinson and others, denouncing the colonial governments, which were transmitted from England by Benjamin Franklin; and the Massachusetts Assembly's resolutions on them. The committee urges each colony to work for the writers' removal from places of trust. Signed: Thomas Cushing, Sam. Adams, Wm. Phillips, Wm. Heath. None of the enclosures is present.

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