What document did Dabney Carr write that led to the American Revolution?(Thomas Jefferson's brother-in-law)

Question

Was it the Bill of Rights? And did he carry them around with him to the Colonies?

Answer 1

He moved and eloquently advocated a resolution to appoint inter-colonial committees of correspondence in resistance to British encroachments, which was adopted on 3 March, 1773.

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In March of 1773, twenty-nine year old Dabney Carr rose from his seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses and proceeded to change the world. Carr grew to adulthood as young Thomas Jefferson's greatest friend and had spent many bright afternoons with young Thomas in the shade of the great oaks of the future Monticello. The lifelong attachment to each other and this small hill, culminated in their legendary promise to be interred in this hallowed ground.1

Carr addressed the House and suggested the establishment of a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry. This committee would be tasked with contacting the legislatures of each colony so that they could join Virginia and offer concerted opposition toward British encroachments.2 With his gifts of youth, intellect, and ambition; Carr seemed to be destined for a stellar career in politics. Destined he was, not for power but for that comforting place on the side of the mountain. Within two months of Dabney Carr's shining moment in Williamsburg, the young man who had not yet seen his thirtieth year would die in Charlottesville. His dearest friend would keep their promise of years past and place Carr in the shade of the oaks.

Dabney Carr never understood his role in the formation of the United States. For that matter, neither did his friend Thomas Jefferson or any of hiscontemporaries. The parts these men played have been left to us, the later generations, to examine and to explicate to the best of our abilities.

Committees of Correspondence were not unknown to colonial legislatures. For many years, various colonies had used these committees to deal with important matters usually between the individual colony and the mother country.3 They tended to be temporary organizations which were dissolved shortly after their usefulness was exhausted until backcountry counterfeiting and Rhode Island's Gaspee Affair spurred Richard Henry Lee and his Raleigh Tavern associates to suggest the establishment of an intercolonial standing Committee of Correspondence.

[Here is the resolution]

Whereas, the minds of his Majesty's faithful subjects in this colony have been much disturbed, by various rumours and reports of proceedings tending to deprive them of their ancient, legal, and constitutional rights, and

Whereas, the affairs of this colony are frequently connected with those of Great Britain, as well as the neighboring colonies, which renders a communication of sentiments necessary; in order therefore to remove the uneasiness, and to quiet the minds of the people, as well as for the other good purposes above mentioned;

Answer 2

A resolution to create a Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry

Answer 3

Not the Bill of Rights. They were not composed until after the Revolutionary War.