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BRAINTREE , a township of See also:

Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Monatiquot See also:river about Io m. S. of See also:Boston. Pop. (2890) 4848; (1900) 5981, including 1250 See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 6879; (1910) 8o66. The New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hart-See also:ford railway crosses the See also:town and has stations at its villages of Braintree, See also:South Braintree and See also:East Braintree, which are also served by suburban electric See also:railways. In South Braintree are the See also:Thayer See also:Academy (co-educational; opened 1877) and the Thayer public library, both founded by and named in See also:honour of See also:General Sylvanus Thayer (1785—1872), a well-known military engineer born in Braintree, who was See also:superintendent of the See also:United States Military Academy in 1817—1833 and has been called the " See also:father of See also:West Point." There are large See also:shoe factories and other manufactories. See also:Bog See also:iron was See also:early found in Braintree, and iron-See also:works, among the first in See also:America, were established here in 1644. Braintree was first incorporated in 164o from See also:land belonging to Boston and called See also:Mount See also:Wollaston, and was named from the town in See also:England. At Merry Mount, in that See also:part of Braintree which is now See also:Quincy, a See also:settlement was established by See also:Thomas See also:Morton in 1625, but the See also:gay See also:life of the settlers and their selling See also:rum and firearms to the See also:Indians greatly offended the Pilgrims of See also:Plymouth, who in 1627 arrested Morton; soon afterward See also:Governor See also:John See also:Endecott of Massachusetts See also:Bay visited Merry Mount, rebuked the inhabitants and cut down their Maypole. Later the See also:place was abandoned, and in 1634 a Puritan settlement was made here. In 1708 the town was divided into the See also:North See also:Precinct and the South Precinct, and it was in the former, now Quincy, that John See also:Adams, John See also:Hancock and John Quincy Adams were born. Quincy was separated from Braintree in 1792 (there were further additions to Quincy from Braintree in 1856), and See also:Randolph in 1793.

See D. M. See also:

Wilson, Quincy, Old Braintree and Merry Mount (Boston, 1906) ; C. F. Adams, Jr., Three Episodes of Massachusetts See also:History (Boston, 1892 and 1896) ; W. S. Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy (Quincy, 1878).

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