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         The Committee of Correspondence was created in Boston by Samuel Adams for the purpose of communicating with the other colonies. Although the system had been in use for a couple of years before Bedford County became involved, by May 1775 Samuel Davidson, David Espy, George Funk, Thomas Smith and George Woods served on the Committee of Correspondence for Bedford County.

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