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3 unusual facts about Committee of Sixty


Committee of 100

Committee of Sixty in New York was replaced by a Committee of One Hundred on May 1, 1775

Committee of Sixty

The Committee of Fifty was formed May 16, 1774 in response to the news that the port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act.

The Committee of One Hundred still considered itself loyal to the British Crown, but was instead opposed to the laws of the Parliament of Great Britain which they considered unconstitutional because they had no representation in it.



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