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 | The last Committee of Safety of the Revolutionary era was chosen October 26, 1659, by the General Council of the army that had overthrown the Parliament it had helped install a few months earlier, and had assumed control of the state. |
| Committees of Safety were appointed by the chief towns, whose special duty was to resist any intrusion of New York claimants on their lands. |
| The provincial Committees were not as [170] active as the local Committees of Correspondence but they corresponded with those of other provinces, and were the first channel of communication of the Continental Congress with the colonies, a place taken later by the Committees of Safety. |
| England: Committees of Safety: 1659-1660 @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database (295 words) |
| The first Committee of Safety was appointed on 7 May 1659 by the Parliament, which convened in response to the officers' declaration announced in the course of a coup (6 May 1659). |
| The second Committee of Safety emerged as a result of dissolution of the Rump Parliament (13 Oct 1659) by the military officers led by General Lambert. |
| Before the Committee was set up, General Monck sent a declaration from Scotland demanding the return of the Rump (20 Oct 1659) and in December crossed the English border threatening to march south with his army. |
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