Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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MAP OF 1686, SHOWING LOCATION OF SHELTER ISLAND. THE MANOR OF SHELTER ISLAM) 363 Charles I., and subsequently to Charles II., found it inconvenient to remainin England. Had there been no Oliver Cromwell, Shelter Island would havehad a very different and doubtless much more prosaic history. The disas-ters that befel the unfortunate Charles I. and his final execution turnedthe attention of many a Royalist toward the new world. While Cromwellwas leading his army against the Scots at Dunbar, in 1650, the Sylvesters(there were five or six brothers, all of whom were wealthy merchants) wereresolutely preparing to leave the kingdom ; and when, on the 3d of Sep-tember, 165 1, Cromwell achieved his great victory over Charles II. at Wor-cester, they had already, nearly three months before, secured Shelter Island
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THE HOME OF THOMAS BRINLEY IN ENGLAND. in America, and the family had found a temporary asylum in Holland.Important business interests must be adjusted, and then three of thebrothers, with their families and their mother, a lady of strong characterand many virtues, removed with their effects to Barbadoes. Even therethey were not beyond the reach of the Cromwell government, and on sev-eral occasions were in great trouble. Constant Sylvester was arrested andimprisoned for a time as the leader of the loyalist faction. Madame Syl-vester, the mother, is on record in Barbadoes as asking that she might betreated as an Englishwoman, not as a Dutchwoman. The father-in-lawof Nathaniel Sylvester was Thomas Brinley, auditor of Charles I. and alsoof Charles II., and keeper of the accounts of the dower of Henrietta Maria.He was a man of integrity, wealth, and sound judgment, very much loved 3^4 THE MANOR OF SHELTER ISLAND and trusted by the royal family. It was to the fastnesses near the ances-tral

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