The history and antiquities of Boston .. . cerity and gladness than per-haps on any other occasion that can be remembered.§This is easy to be believed, when it is considered thatships lay rotting at the wharves, and thousands of indus-trious people had been driven into idleness. From such a state to lifeand activity in a moment, as it were, was indeed ample cause for theebullitions of joy which ensued. The newspapers were filled with * Arms — Per chev. or and sa. Three es-challop shells counterchanged. Crest — Alions head az., crowned, or. The note onpage 626, ante, should conform in its facts
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . cerity and gladness than per-haps on any other occasion that can be remembered.§This is easy to be believed, when it is considered thatships lay rotting at the wharves, and thousands of indus-trious people had been driven into idleness. From such a state to lifeand activity in a moment, as it were, was indeed ample cause for theebullitions of joy which ensued. The newspapers were filled with * Arms — Per chev. or and sa. Three es-challop shells counterchanged. Crest — Alions head az., crowned, or. The note onpage 626, ante, should conform in its facts tothis which follows. Col. Francis Brinley wasborn in London, 1690, and educated at Eton,lie was the only son of Thomas, the only sur-viving child of Francis, of Newport, R. I.,who was son of Thomas, Auditor General toCharles First and Second. Francis Brinley,of Newport, went to that town in 1652, about14 years after its settlement, and held variousoffices ; among them that of Judge. He diedIn 1719-20, aged 87, and was buried in the. Kings Chapel burial-ground in Boston. Hisson Thomas resided in Boston, and was bne ofthe founders of Kings Chapel. He went to England in 1684, and married Catharine, John Page, of London. He died in thatcity in 1693, leaving a widow and two chil-dren, Elizabeth and Francis. These three, oninvitation of Francis Brinley, of Newport,came to this country. Elizabeth married Wil-liam Hutchinson, Esq., a grad. H. C. was the Col. Brinley who died in1765, first named above. His residence wasin Roxbury, as mentioned on page 626, butthere Datchet was misprinted Dutchet. Hismansion was named Datchet from the houseat that place in England. f Mass. Gazette and News-Letter, 22 May,1766. X Hutchinson, Hist. Mass., iii., p. 147. \ Ajinual Register for 1766, p. 46. Wlienthe King went to the House of Peers to givethe Royal assent, there was such a vast con-course of people huzzaing, clapping of hands,&c., that it was several hours before his
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