English-born landowner, philanthropist and military officer (1690–1765)
Francis Brinley
Born
1690
London, England
Died
November 27, 1765 (aged 74–75)
London, England
Alma mater
Eton College
Occupation(s)
Landowner, government official and military officer
Spouse
Deborah Lyde (m. 1718)
Children
7
Military career
Allegiance
Massachusetts (1754–1763)
Service/branch
Massachusetts Militia (1754–1763)
Rank
Colonel
Battles/wars
French and Indian War
Colonel Francis Brinley (c. 1690 – November 27, 1765) was an English-born landowner, philanthropist and military officer best known for being the subject of a John Smibert portrait now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brinley, though he was born and died in England, spent most of his life in the Province of Massachusetts Bay as a prosperous landholder who became involved with several colonization projects throughout the region.
Born in 1690 in London to American colonists who had moved back to England, Brinley spent the first two decades of his life in Europe before moving back to North America in order to inherit the estate of his grandfather in Massachusetts. In 1719, his grandfather died and left his estate to Brinley, who settled down in Massachusetts and constructed a large colonial mansion for himself known as Datchet House in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury.
In 1718, Brinley married a wealthy heiress from Boston named Deborah Lyde. Over the following decades, Brinley established himself as a prominent member of the American gentry, acquiring landholdings and slaves along with sponsoring charitable organizations. He also served as an official in the colonial government of Massachusetts, being successively appointed as an assistant-surveyor, a deputy surveyor-general and a justice of the peace.
Brinley also became involved in colonization schemes, buying land in Suffield, Connecticut in 1735 and Framingham, Massachusetts in 1742. Upon the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the colonial militia. Brinley served throughout the entire duration of the war, though he personally never saw combat. After the war's end in 1763, Brinley travelled back to England, dying in London in 1765.
Colonel FrancisBrinley (c. 1690 – November 27, 1765) was an English-born landowner, philanthropist and military officer best known for being the subject...
William Brinley, Esq. (1677–1753), only child of Wm. Brinley, Judge in Monmouth, NJ, passed over for younger cousin FrancisBrinley John Brinley (1713–1775)...
in America. Originally constructed in 1652 as a residence for judge FrancisBrinley, converted to a tavern in 1673. Brown House Hamilton MA 1673 Residential...
was known as Brinley Place, and included a grand house, Datchet House built in 1723 by prominent English officer Colonel FrancisBrinley in memory of...
England 1650–1775. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press. Brinley, Francis. (1900). “FrancisBrinley’s Briefe Narrative of the Nanhiganset Countrey. Publications...
Boston. Edward Winslow, c. 1730-1731, Yale University Art Gallery. FrancisBrinley, c. 1729, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portrait of Edmund Quincy, in...
residence; not open to the public more images White Horse Tavern 1652–1673 FrancisBrinley, William Mayes Restored by the PSNC in 1952, but now privately owned...
1847 – January 7, 1850 Preceded by George Stillman Hillard Succeeded by FrancisBrinley Member of the Boston Common Council In office January 3, 1848 – January...
married Anne Brinley while there. She was the daughter of Thomas Brinley, auditor to Kings Charles I and Charles II, and sister of FrancisBrinley, who settled...
Winthrop; Henry Rice; Richard Hildreth; James Brown; John Lewis Dimmock; FrancisBrinley Jr; John Collamore Jr; John Lillie Phillips; Gilman Prichard; Henry...
Lyde (son-in-law of Governor Belcher), and daughter, Deborah Brinley, wife of FrancisBrinley, were his chief heirs. At Granary Burying Ground, Byfield rests...
Hiram Bosworth George P. Bowers Ebenezer Bradbury William H. Bradway FrancisBrinley Charles Brown Henry F. Brown Hiram C. Brown Nehemiah Brown William...
of Mathematics, Science and Technology established in 2003. J. Harold Brinley Middle School Region 1, Northwest Opened in 1967. The school is part with...
Alfred A. Abbott Benjamin Adams Willard Blackinton Osmyn Brewster FrancisBrinley Thomas G. Cary John J. Clarke Horace Collamore Charles E. Cook Henry...
district John L. Baker, 5th Essex district Solomon J. Beal Joseph Breck FrancisBrinley Samuel A. Brown Henry Carter Otis Cary Mellen Chamberlain Hosea Crane...
include Henry Gantt, James Buchanan Eads, Theodore Cooper, and Francis B. Foley. Charles E. Brinley, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works during the World War...
Anne's brother, Francis, would join his sisters in the New World, fleeing Cromwell's England and establishing the American Brinleys in Newport, RI, and...
Retrieved 16 October 2015. Brinley Jones, R. (2004). William Salesbury. Oxford: Oxford dictionary of national biography. Johnson, Francis (1937). Astronomical...
for 6 months but was then let to Terence Byron Ltd as a variety theatre. Brinley Evans (managing director) came to be known as Hull's "Mr Cinema". The son...
School and Nursery, Bradford, West Yorkshire. For services to Education Brinley Reynolds — Finance Business Partner, Department for Culture, Media and...
Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle". Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351233965. Archived from the original on July 16, 2023. Retrieved...
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