Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . d to read theoffice of Burial, they askd excuse, and went away. Mr. Myless assistant, however, had a gentler spirit: — Mr. Harris, minister, and Mr. Auchmutty, giving oath of his distrac-tion, he had a funerall, and was buryed in ye Church yard. 2 Colonel Francis Brinley, warden, 1723, was grandson ofFrancis Brinley, of Newport, R. I. (the first of his name who came to this country). Hewas born in England, 1690,son of Thomas Brinley, andeducated at Eton. He cameto New England in 1710, byinvitation of his grandfath
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . d to read theoffice of Burial, they askd excuse, and went away. Mr. Myless assistant, however, had a gentler spirit: — Mr. Harris, minister, and Mr. Auchmutty, giving oath of his distrac-tion, he had a funerall, and was buryed in ye Church yard. 2 Colonel Francis Brinley, warden, 1723, was grandson ofFrancis Brinley, of Newport, R. I. (the first of his name who came to this country). Hewas born in England, 1690,son of Thomas Brinley, andeducated at Eton. He cameto New England in 1710, byinvitation of his grandfather,who made him heir to his large possessions. He was admitteda freeman of Newport July 29, 1713, but did not remain there,building a wooden house in Roxbury, after the model of thestone family mansion, in Datchet, England, on a smaller the 18th of April, 1719, Colonel Brinley married DeborahLyde, daughter of Edward and Catharine Lyde, and grand-daughter of Judge Nathaniel Byfield. He died Nov. 27, had five sons and two daughters. His family were scattered. 1 News-Letter, February, his will, May 8, 1722, he leaves ^30sterling to his mother, if she surviveshim, while his legacies to others are in Province Bills, which indicates thatshe was then living in England. Theusual confusion of him with his fathermay be due to the return of the elderJohn Valentine to that country beforehis death. The Advocate-General hadchildren, — Samuel, born Dec. 28, 1702,died March 14, 1781; married (1), June25, 1729, Abigail Durfee; (2) October,1766, Rebecca Hall: he was ancestorof the Freetown and Fall River familiesof the same name. Elizabeth, born , 1703, married, 1724, James, son ofCapt. James and Hester Gooch, of Bos-ton; John, born Nov. 8, 1706, died at Portsmouth, England, 1711, while hisparents were visiting that country; Ed-mond, born Jan. 16, 1709, died Jan. 30,1710-11; Thomas, born Aug. 3, 1713,married Elizabeth, daughter of and Hester Gooc
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