The bill for blocking up the harbor of Boston is replete [filled] with injustice and cruelty, thousands of innocent men, besides women and infants, are by it reduced to indigence [poverty] and distress; and though we in this town more immediately feel this distress, yet our brethren [brothers] in other towns of this province, and all the other colonies, must see that we suffer in the common cause, and that they themselves must soon realize the sufferings under which we now labour, if no means are discovered for our relief. But if any should think that this town alone is to groan under the weight of arbitrary [unfair] power, we are now furnished [provided] by our enemies with a still more glaring [obvious] evidence of a fixed plan of the British administration to bring the whole continent into the most humiliating bondage.


Using Source 3, what was the primary goal of the Committees of Correspondence?

A.To persuade Parliament to repeal the taxes imposed on the colonists.

B.To convince colonists to support the Stamp Act.

C.To have communication between the colonies.

D.To persuade colonists to ratify the constitution.