Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . rs of Trinity Church, Newport, anddied about 1704. He was the son of the Honorable Francis Brinley, who wasborn at Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England, 15 November, 1632, and who, 184 THE CORLIES FAMILY coming to Newport in 1651, spent a long and useful life in Rhode Island,and died there in 1719, having been Governors Assistant, 1672-73; memberof Sir Edmund Andross Council in 1687; and presiding judge of the GeneralQuarter Sessions and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 1687-88. He had buttwo children, William Bri
Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . rs of Trinity Church, Newport, anddied about 1704. He was the son of the Honorable Francis Brinley, who wasborn at Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England, 15 November, 1632, and who, 184 THE CORLIES FAMILY coming to Newport in 1651, spent a long and useful life in Rhode Island,and died there in 1719, having been Governors Assistant, 1672-73; memberof Sir Edmund Andross Council in 1687; and presiding judge of the GeneralQuarter Sessions and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 1687-88. He had buttwo children, William Brinley, before mentioned, and Thomas Brinley, whowas a merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, and London, England, and one ofthe founders of Kings Chapel, Boston, where the tomb of his son. ColonelFrancis Brinley, is embellished by the armorial bearings here given. Thematernal grandfather of the subject of our sketch, William Reape, was anearly follower of Quakerism, and was arrested at Sandwich, Massachusetts,and on Long Island, in 1661-62, for adherence to the principles and practice. Brinley Arms of Friends, As early as 1665 he was active in promoting the settlement ofMonmouth, in East Jersey, of which he was one of the patentees. He wasone of the Governors Assistants of Rhode Island in 1667, and one of themembers of the East Jersey Assembly in 1670. He died 6 August, widow, Sarah Reape, removed to Shrewsbury about 1687, accompanied,possibly, by her grandson, William Brinley, to whom her will of 12 April,1715, left a house and lot in Newport and legacies to all his children namedbelow, except John and Hannah. Just when William Brinley became a resi-dent of Shrewsbury is uncertain, but, from 1695, he was frequently a wit-ness to the marriages of Friends. He was captain of the sloop Elizabeth,sailing between Perth Amboy, New York, Newport, Boston, and Newfound-land, and his name is of frequent occurrence in the shipping news of 1730,et seq. He was justice of the peace and o
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