The Votes and Proceedings acquired much of its significance from its position as the first, province-wide communication of the Boston Committee of Correspondence. Over the next two and a half years of the American Crisis, the Boston Committee availded itself of communication by pamphlet or broadside at least a dozen times. These formats had certain advantages over the more routine communication by newspaper. Broadsides and pamplets could be printed as soon as manuscript copy was ready without regard to the weekly schedule of the newspapers; as documents composed to have a single clear focus, they could avoid the distraction of being printed along side competing political and commercial messages; and finally, because the Boston committee controlled their distribution, they could be targeted to audiences in remote parts of the province, or entirely outside of the province, who could not reliably reached by the local Boston newspapers. These documents broadcast the Boston Whig political perspective at each phase of the imperial crisis.