It would be difficult to find a document that offers stronger evidence of coordinated communication between the Whigs of Virginia and Boston than this broadside. The broadside was sent to the towns of Massachusetts (here the town of Westminster) with a printed covering paragraph from the Clerk of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, William Cooper. Cooper's manuscript signature attests to the broadside's authenticity. Within the broadside there is an "Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Distinction in Virginia” (almost certainly Richard Henry Lee) “to his Friend in this Town” (Speaker of the Massachusetts House, Thomas Cushing Jr.). That extract enbeds evidence of the two forms of political information passed between Boston and Virginia. Lee writes that he is "obliged" to Cushing for mailing him a copy of the "papers" written by the Boston Whigs that proved to be of "use" to the members of the Virginia Assembly: The Votes and Proceedings of the Town of Boston and the newspaper accounts of the House's debate with Governor Hutchinson. As evidence of Virginia Whig activism in the common cause of liberty, Lee includes the full text of resolutions of the Virginia House of Burgesses instituting a committee of correspondence and charging the Virginia committee to open and conduct an ongoing correspondence with the 12 other assemblies in British America.