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recovered, and returned with the British troops; was appointed Commissary at Halifax, and afterwards Commissary-General of the British troops in America.

"He married a daughter of Governor Wentworth, of New Hampshire, had two sons, Thomas and William, and a daughter, Mary. William was a pay-master in the British army. Mary married a Moody,' in England, and one of her daugh ters was in Boston two or three years ago.

"Frank, my father's eldest brother, served his time with Dr. Hunter, who married Miss Malborn, (my grand-mother's sister.) Frank was Surgeon of the New-York Volunteers,' and went to Carolina with them,-afterwards died at my father's house, (Edward Brinley,) at Shelburne, in 1757-8.

Commissary George's son, Tom, was a Colonel in the British army, and was with Sir John Moore, in Spain; was detached to the West Indies, and there died an AdjutantGeneral.

"Francis Brinley, my grand-father, lived at Newport, Rhode Island; married Aleph Malborn, daughter of Godfrey Malborn. My uncle, Frank,' died young; was at College, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the time the British troops marched to Lexington. My father, Edward, was there on a visit to his brother. On the retreat of the British, the Americans were in pursuit, and, from the circumstance of some of the British officers having been with Frank and my father, (Ned,) imagined that Frank had pilotted the troops.' The Americans, or some of them, were so exasperated, that my father and others were obliged to lower Frank, by sheets tied together, from one of the College windows; while the Americans battered the door of his room, and destroyed everything.

"Frank and Ned afterwards came together, got an old horse from a pasture, and went "ride and tie' to Newport,' full of wrath.' They met the British troops and joined them, and were called 'Tories' ever afterwards. My father says, 'Had it not been for this circumstance, we would have been the best of Democrats.'

"Deborah, my aunt, married an Episcopal clergyman, Rev. Daniel Fogg, of Brooklyn, Connecticut. She died a few years. ago; had Francis Brinley Fogg, who studied at Newport, under the late Hon. William Hunter, and removed to Nashville,

Tennessee, where he married, and is an eminent lawyer: Edward, who still lives with his sister, Aleph Brinley Fogg, at Brooklyn, and Godfrey Malborn Fogg, who is, I believe, still living.

"Elizabeth, my aunt, married Capt. William Littlefield, formerly of the United States army, stationed at Newport; Littlefield was aid-de-camp to Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who married his sister.

"Edward Brinley Littlefield, of Tennessee, who was highly esteemed there, William, of Newport, and John, a physician, who died some years since, at New Orleans.

"Thomas, my uncle, still resides at Newport, a very aged man, though remarkably vigorous for one of his years. (He has recently died, aged 87.)

"Catharine, my aunt, married a Dr. Field, a Surgeon in the British army, and died at Jamaica, on Long Island, without issue.

"Gertrude Aleph, my sister, married the Rev. Edward Gilpin, son of John Gilpin, long his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Newport.

"Elizabeth Parker, my sister, married the Rev. J.F. Halsey, son of Capt. Halsey, of the United States' army.

"My father married, in 1806, Mary, the daughter of Dr. Johnson, of Newport; had issue, Edward L. Brinley, now a merchant, of the firm of Furness, Brinley & Co., Philadelphia: he married Fanny, sister of Major Brown, now in Russia.

"My son, Edward, is an officer in the United States' navy. "My father, Edward Brinley, resides with me; he is 94 years old, but will not use a cane. He was, when young, shot through the body, with an iron ramrod, still in my possession. The following is the copy of the record of the accident in his own hand-writing:

RECORD.

"This ramrod was shot through my body, when I was about twenty-one years old. It was an accident, and happened thus; I was out shooting snipe, robins, and other small birds, in company with a young man of about my own age; his gun had an iron ramrod, and in the course of the morning's shooting

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got foul, and the ramrod stuck, and being stronger in the grip with my fingers, I had twice pulled it out for him, the third time it stuck so fast that I could not draw it. I proposed firing against a crib, about twenty-five yards distance, and, I snppose, I cocked the gun for that purpose. He objected, say. ing, that he would lose his sport for the remainder of the day. I then told him to take hold of the breech, and I took the end of the ramrod, and both pulled away. I think it probable his hand was before the guard of the trigger, and he must have touched it with his finger. Off went the gun, the ramrod through my body. It entered about two or two and a half inches above my navel, and came out about the same distance from the back-bone, going, as the doctors said, through the lower part of the liver. The ramrod was found at the foot of an apple-tree, in the same form that it is now, about thirty yards off. My companion, half-frightened to death, ran off, leaving me to get to a house, not far distant, but with a five-rail fence to get over. An express was immediately sent off to town, about two miles distant, and my father, and mother, and sister, and three doctors, two of them skilful surgeons in the British army, who then were in Newport, to whose knowledge of similar cases, I am, probably, indebted for my life. In about three weeks I was taken to town in a litter, and in another three weeks quite well, except weakness.

"Given under my hand this Eighteenth day of October, A. D. 1848.

"EDWARD BRINLEY, aged 90 years."

"The pictures of my great-grand-father, and great-grandmother, hanging up in my parlor, were painted by Simybert, who came over to this country with George Berkley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, about 1700. The child in my great-grandmother's arms is my grandfather, Francis Brinley, (second of Newport.) The back ground of the picture representing my great-grand-father, is a view of his meadows, &c., with the town in the distance. The pictures are in good preservation, (life size,) and have been pronounced 'chef-d'œuvres.'

"The house at Roxbury, Massachusetts, built by Francis Brinley, of Roxbury, was after the model of the old family mansion at Datchet, near London, and still is in good preser vation."

1634. The record of the Brinley family, commences in America. It will be perceived by the reader, that the Brinley family were Loyalists. They may have thought, like Saul of Tarsus, when he was waging a war of exterinination against Christians, that they did it all in good conscience. But "the sword of the Lord and of Gideon" prevailed against our ene mies; and they and their descendants have reaped the blessings acquired by other hearts, and other hands, in the glorious enterprise.

I have the following information of an old family of Newport, taken from these Records, viz. :

"Book C, page 158, Deed from Sarah Reape, widow of 1st August, 1694. William Reape, late of Rhode Island, deceased, to William Marsh, son of Jonathan Marsh, of Newport, mariner, for certain lands in Monmouth county, N. J."

William Brinley signs this deed as a witness; dated in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New-York.

It appears that this Sarah came from Newport, about the year 1676, and had one patent for land to her in Shrewsbury, of 2010 acres, and various other large patents; one of 500 acres, "in right of her deceased husband.".

"Lib. B 2, fol. 165, Deed from Jonathan Marsh, of New20 Sept. 1685. port, &c., merchant, to Sarah Reape,

for a right of Propriety in East Jersey."

From the above documents, I find that her husband's (William Reape) will, was dated 1st August, 1670.

"Lib. A, of Wills, page 5, Sarah Reape's Will;" (by which 7th of Jan. 1715. it appears she had a large estate in Weymouth, Dorsetshire, in Old England. She devises as follows):-" To my grandson, William Brinley, my house lot, that I bought of the town of Newport, on Rhode Island, with the housings thereon. And also all my land at Rack (Wreck) Pond; and unto his three sons, Francis, William,

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and Thomas, a silver spoon to each, and all my tract of land of about 400 acres, in freehold. To my grand-daughter, Sarah Brinley, feather-beds, &c.; to my grandson William Brinley, my great silver cup, and all my land that lyeth at Whale Point, and all my right of propriety; to my grand-daughter, Elizabeth Brinley, a silver spoon, &c.; to my grandson, William Brinley, youngest son of Reape Brinley, my lands in Weymouth, in Old England," &c.

By her will she must have been very rich.

My presumption is, that Francis Brinley, (first) of Newport, had first, Thomas, then a second son, who married a daughter of William and Sarah Reape, of Newport, and their son, William, emigrated about the year 1685, to Monmouth county, New Jersey, and settled with his grandmother; he was one of the executors to his grandmother's will.

This William became a man of large possessions, and of mnch note. He is first named on the Records as a yeoman, then esquire, gentleman, and judge. The first grant of lands to him was in 1718; and he had many extensive grants of land besides those devised to him by his grandmother, Sarah.

He died about the year 1765, in Shrewsbury.

John Brinley appears on the Records, from 1754 to 1774. He died during the Revolution.

Reape Brinley, heir of William Brinley, and the youngest son, (mentioned in Sarah Reape's will,) was alive, in Shrewsbury, the 10th August, 1801. His son, Joseph Brinley, lived near Eatontown, in Shrewsbury, a man of considerable property, and a member of our Legislature about 1840. He died about 1843, leaving one child, a daughter.

A LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ESTABLISHED AT NEWPORT.

The celebrated Dean, afterwards Bishop Berkley, who resided here at the time is thought to have suggested its formation. The society was select, and some of its members were