The New Hampshire Committees of Safety and revolutionary Republicanism, 1775-1784: Historical New Hampshire / Ronald Lettieri and Charles Wetherell.

Title:

The New Hampshire Committees of Safety and revolutionary Republicanism, 1775-1784: Historical New Hampshire / Ronald Lettieri and Charles Wetherell.

Author:

Lettieri, Ronald John.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1980.

Source:

Vol. 35, No. 3 (Fall, 1980) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

A state committee of safety was appointed in 1775 and was disbanded in 1784. It and local committees of safety provided the revolutionary government with the institutional continuity and effective leadership previously lacking. The committees exercised many executive, legislative, and judicial functions. The state committee expropriated money, collected taxes, regulated trade, and once even forwarded a package of bills to the Assembly. Local committees disappeared around 1780, as the Assembly made them liable for their actions. The Assembly also began to challenge the state committee's authority at about the same time. Based on committee records in the New Hampshire Archives, and other sources

Language:

English.

Locations:

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States History Committees of safety. Revolution, 1775-1783

People:

Wetherell, Charles.

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