Brinley Family Papers 1643-2005 1703-1889

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Brinley Family Papers 1643-2005 1703-1889

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A prosperous family of merchants and landowners, the Brinleys were well ensconced among the social and political elite of colonial New England. Connected by marriage to other elite families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts -- the Auchmutys, Craddocks, and Tyngs among them -- the Brinleys were refined, highly educated, public spirited, and most often business-minded. Although many members of the family remained loyal to the British cause during the Revolution, the family retained their high social standing in the years following. The Brinley collection includes business letters, legal and business records, wills, a fragment of a diary, documents relating to slaves, newspaper clippings, and a small number of paintings and artifacts. A descendent, Nancy Brinley, contributed a quantity of genealogical research notes and photocopies of Brinley family documents from other repositories. Of particular note in the collection is a fine nineteenth century copy of a John Smibert portrait of Deborah Brinley (1719), an elegant silver salver passed through the generations, and is a 1713 list of the library of Francis Brinley, which offers a foreshadowing of the remarkable book collection put together in the later nineteenth century by his descendant George Brinley.

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Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Brinley, Elizabeth Craddock

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Brinley, Francis, 1772-1838

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Winslow, Sarah Tyng, 1720-1791

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Auchmuty, Robert, 1724-1788

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Brinley, George, 1817-1875

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George Brinley (1817-1875) was a book collector in Hartford, Conn. From the description of Papers, 1888-1899. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 436840539 ...

Brinley, Francis, 1800-1889

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Craddock family.

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Brinley, Thomas, 1726-1784

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Brinley, George, -1809

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Auchmuty, Robert, 1687-1750

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Craddock, George

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Brinley, Francis, 1632-1719

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Brinley family

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Deborah and Francis Brinley, portrait by Charles U. Bond (ca.1830) after John Smibert (1729) Englishmen and colonial Americans, Loyalists and Patriots, colonial Canadians and American citizens, the members of the Brinley family were a diverse group of characters, ranging from auditors to officers, businessmen, lawyers, legislators, book-collectors, historians, aristocratic ladies and housewives, devoted mothers, husbands, and fathers. A few were slave-holders. Yet throu...

Tyng, Jonathan, 1642-1723

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Brinley, Francis, 1690-1765

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Tyng family.

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Brinley, Nathaniel, 1733-

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Tyng, Edward, 1610-1681

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