eminently successful. In the war of 1740, with France and Spain, he fitted out several private armed vessels of war, which made many captures. He died at Newport, February 22d, 1768, and was buried in the vault under Trinity Church, of which he was one of the founders. He left two sons, Godfrey and John; Thoinas, another son, a graduate of Cambridge, Massachusetts, having died at an early age, the victim, it has been said, of an over-devotion to study.

Godfrey, the eldest son, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford; returned to Rhode Island in 1774, and carried on business on a large scale, in company with his brother John. They were largely engaged in the Colonial Neutral trade, in the war of 1756-7, ending by the peace of 1763, and at first was uncommonly successful, but in the end suffered severely, by the application of the rule of 1756. Two large ships laden with sugar, bound for Hamburgh, having been captured, were condemned, after a long and expensive litigation in the English Courts of Admiralty. These, and other vexatious losses, induced Mr. Malborn to retire from business, to the calm retreat of his large estate, in Pomfret, Connecticut. Mr. Malborn built an Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, known as the "Malborn Church."

"This was the first church erected, and for a long period, the only church of that denomination in this country. It was erected before the Revolutionary war, by Godfrey Malborn, Jun., Esq., a gentleman from Newport, Rhode Island. On his removal to Connecticut, he brought with him fifty or sixty slaves, on his large estate on which he resided. A great proportion of the colored people in this part of the State are their descendants."--Connecticut Historical Collections.

The Rev. Mr. Fog, the first Rector of the church, was a gentleman of highly respectable attainments, and continued to officiate until his death.

Mr. Malborn married Miss Brinley, of Roxbury, sister of Francis Brinley, of Newport, and died without issue, 1785. His remains lay interred in the church-yard of the Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Con

Godfrey Malborn, senior, had five daughters; one married the above Francis Brinley; another, the youngest, to Dr. William Hunter, father of the late Hon. William Hunter.

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One married Major Fairchild, one Dr. Mac-Kay, and another Shubel Hutchinson.

Thomas Brinley, in the reign of Charles the First, held the office of Auditor-General. At the downfall of that sovereign, he adhered to the fortunes of Charles the Second, and followed him on his exile upon the Continent. Upon the restoration of the second Charles, he held the same office under him, and died one year after; he was buried in the middle aisle of Datchet church, near London; the slab over his remains, still records these facts.

His son, Francis, (the first of Newport,) left England, and arrived at Newport, Rhode Island, and there amassed a large fortune; he died in Newport. He had previously sent his eldest son, Thomas, to England, for his education; he married in London, and had three children, and died there with the small-pox. His son, William, died, aged 13. His eldest son, Francis, (the second,) and daughter Elizabeth, with their mother, came to America, and inherited the fortune of his grandfather. He built the house at Roxbury, after the model of the old family mansion at Datchet, in England.

Elizabeth, grand-daughter of Thomas Brinley, AnditorGeneral for King Charles First and Second, came over with her brother Frank and their mother, from England, and settled at Roxbury; she married a Mr. Hutchinson, father of Shrimpton Hutchinson, who married a Malborn. Mrs. Col. Putman, George Brinley's wife's mother, was, in 1840, the only one of the stock remaining, id. est. the Hutchinsons.

There was a branch of the Brinley's in New Jersey, as early as 1776; I know this from the following records in my office, (Surveyor-General's :)-

"Lib. 2, fols. 33 & 80: Warrt. Survey and Patent, from 8th March, 1677. Sir George Carteret, Knt., &c. Proprietor of E. Jersey, to Simon Brinley, for a parcel of land about the towne of Piscataway.'"

Simon Brinley's will was recorded at Trenton, 5th January, 1724-5, in "Book A, of Wills, page 348." I can trace him no farther.

Frank W. Brinley, Esq., of Perth Amboy, N. J., GeneralSurveyor, one of my old schoolfellows, has kindly furnished some interesting notes of his family, which are here subjoined, as standing in most intimate relation with the past events of Newport.

"Thomas Brinley, first son of Francis and Deborah, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was a King's Counsellor, and went to England with the British troops. He married a Miss Leyed, received a compensation from the British government, and died in England; he left no issue.

"Edward Brinley, third son, remained in Boston at the Revolution, and was much persecuted as a Loyalist; he kept a grocery in Boston, and was very unfortunate. He was father of George Brinley, druggist, now of Hartford, Connecticut, and of Frank and William, who lived at Roxbury.

"Nathaniel Brinley, fourth son, lived at Tingsbury, a farmer of large estate had one son, Robert, still alive, and resident at Tingsbury; said to be one of the best of men.

"George Brinley, fifth son, (my father's idol.) He was Commissary in the British army, during the Revolution. In 1777, at the time of the action at Princeton, the British being in New Brunswick and Perth Amboy, on his way from New Brunswick to Perth Amboy, with one servant, he was fired upon by a party of Provincials, ' minute-men,' who had come down from Woodbridge, on the main road between Brunswick and Amboy, from what is now (1850,) known as the Old Tappan House,' in the village of Bonhamtown. He received five musket balls in various parts of his body; but retained his seat on horseback. His servant, being somewhat behind, wheeled, and rode back to New Brunswick, reporting his master as killed. Each ball made a flesh wound, and did not touch a bone. George rode on, until he reached Hangman's Corner,' (the parting roads from Perth Amboy, to Bonhamtown and Woodbridge,) where he fell from his horse, from loss of blood, and was seen to fall by the sentinel at the King's barracks.' A party was sent out, who brought him in, with his horse, that remained by him. He laid many months at Amboy. My father, (Edward,) who came from Newport to attend him, says, that when he saw his uncle, he had lain so long, that the shoulder-bones were through the skin.' He finally

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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 daugh ter, Mary. William was a pay-master in the British army. Mary married a Moody,' in England, and one of her daughters 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:

666 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