* February 15 – In Boston, Massachusetts, members of the anti-slavery Boston Vigilance Committee rescue fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from a courtroom following his arrest by US marshals.

A lynching carried out by the San Francisco Vigilance Movement | San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.

However, the first Albany County sheriff, rancher N. K. Boswell, organized a " Vigilance Committee ", and on October 28, 1868, Boswell led the committee into the Bucket of Blood, overwhelmed the three brothers, and lynched them at an unfinished cabin down the street.

The film was initially a success, but the portrayal of Irish characters caused a protest in the Irish World newspaper, protests by the American Irish Vigilance Committee, and pickets outside the film's New York theatre.

The Boston Vigilance Committee then helped the man evade slave-catchers and reach freedom.

As a supporter of the Underground Railroad, Purvis served as chairman of the General Vigilance Committee from 1852-1857.

He served on New York's Committee of Vigilance, established to try to help fugitive slaves evade slave catchers and resist their being returned to the South.

The box containing Brown was received by McKim, William Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.

Parker and his followers formed the Committee of Vigilance, refusing to assist with the recovery of fugitive slaves, and helping to hide them.

The Crawley and Ifield Vigilance Committee, an amateur pressure group, demanded improvements for several years, and proper drains were eventually laid.

In 1862, a petition from the ' Municipal District of East Collingwood ' was presented to the Legislative Assembly citing the good work of the local Vigilance Committee towards improving Clifton Hill.

As a testament to Chandler ’ s bravery and sacrifice during his Vigilance Committee days prior to his probing into the political realm.

Former TM Movement members relate that their mail was screened and their activities monitored by a " Vigilance Committee ".

As Casey stood in custody with San Francisco law enforcement, William T. Coleman, a ringleader in the 1851 Vigilance Committee and another vocal critic of municipal authorities, called for sympathizers and arms to form another Vigilante Committee.

In 1856, he stabbed Sterling A. Hopkins, a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance and was arrested, but was not tried.

* Jackson County, Indiana Vigilance Committee ( aka Scarlet Mask Society or Southern Indiana Vigilance Committee ), 1868-captured and hanged 10 members of the Reno Gang

* Committee of Vigilance ; 1851 & 1856, San Francisco, California

* 3-7-77 Vigilance Committee ; 1860s-1870s, Virginia City, Montana

* Whitechapel Vigilance Committee ; 1888, London, UK-founded to capture Jack the Ripper.

* Vigilance Committee is also a term used by some interest groups who monitor the actions of others.

Jessup's participation in the organization results in the publication of a periodical called The Vermont Vigilance, in which he writes editorials decrying Windrip's abuses of power.

The Silencer eventually uncovers secret plans for a WEC space station, the Vigilance Platform, which can attack any location on Earth from space, meaning cities with a known Resistance presence can simply be annihilated at the leisure of the WEC.

The experience led Baker to become active in the Law and Order Party, which opposed actions of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, which took the law into its own hands.

Operation Northern Vigilance, was a NORAD operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada.

The 1856 Committee of Vigilance dissolved on 11 August 1856, and marked the occasion with a “ Grand Parade .” Political power in San Francisco was transferred to a new political party established by the vigilantes, the People's Party, which ruled until 1867 and was eventually absorbed into the Republican Party.

The San Francisco Vigilance Movements of 1851 and 1856 are often described by sympathetic historians as responses to rampant crime and government corruption.

* May 14 – A committee of Vigilance is founded in San Francisco, California.

* In 1851 and 1856, San Francisco Vigilance Movement sought to eliminate crime, an element of this movement focused on immigrants like the Sydney Ducks.

In 1851, due to distrust with municipal authorities and allegations of severe corruption, armed citizens took to the streets and formed the San Francisco Vigilance Movement to correct wrongs they saw being committed or being protected by the city government.

In 1856, he was appointed Adjutant General of California, following the resignation of William T. Sherman during the time of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance.

* Bela Wellman, California Gold Rush merchant and member of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee

Charles Cora and James Casey are lynched by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco, 1856.

The San Francisco Vigilance Movement, for example, has traditionally been portrayed as a positive response to government corruption and rampant crime, though revisionists have argued that it created more lawlessness than it eliminated.

Charles Cora and James Casey are hanged by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco, 1856.

The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a popular ad hoc organization formed in 1851 and revived in 1856.

As < nowiki > vigilantes </ nowiki > controlled the press, they wrote their own history, and the world generally gives them the credit of having purged San Francisco of rowdies and roughs ; but their success has given great stimulus to a dangerous principle, that would at any time justify the mob in seizing all the power of government ; and who is to say that the Vigilance Committee may not be composed of the worst, instead of the best, elements of a community?

A former member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, physician Max Fifer, having moved to Yale, British Columbia at the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush participated in the organization of a Vigilance Committee on the Fraser River in 1858 to address issues of lawlessness and a vacuum of effective governmental authority created by the sudden influx of goldseekers to the new British colony.

* Mary Floyd Williams, History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance: A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921.

* Guide to the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers at The Bancroft Library

Both were hanged as murderers by the Committee of Vigilance: Cora shot dead a U. S. Marshal who had drunkenly insulted his mistress, and Casey killed a rival newspaper editor for publishing an editorial that exposed Casey's criminal record in New York.

Abolitionists in Boston had formed the biracial Vigilance Committee to resist the new Slave Bill ; its members protected the Crafts by moving them around various " safe houses " ( such as the Tappan-Philbrick house in the nearby town of Brookline ) until they could leave the country.