<P> A major function of the committees in each colony was to inform the voters of the common threat faced by all the colonies , and to disseminate information from the main cities to the rural hinterlands where most of the colonists lived . As news was typically spread in hand - written letters or printed pamphlets to be carried by couriers on horseback or aboard ships , the committees were responsible for ensuring that this news accurately reflected the views of their parent governmental body on a particular issue and was dispatched to the proper groups . Many correspondents were also members of the colonial legislative assemblies , and were active in the secret Sons of Liberty or even the Stamp Act Congress of the 1760s . </P>
what was the primary task of the committees of correspondence
to inform the voters of the common threat faced by all the colonies , and to disseminate information from the main cities to the rural hinterlands where most of the colonists lived