BRAINTREE

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BRAINTREE , a township of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Monatiquot river about Io m. S. of Boston. Pop. (2890) 4848; (1900) 5981, including 1250 foreign-born; (1905, state census) 6879; (1910) 8o66. The New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, New Haven & Hart-ford railway crosses the town and has stations at its villages of Braintree, South Braintree and

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Braintree, which are also served by suburban electric railways. In South Braintree are the Thayer

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

(co-educational; opened 1877) and the Thayer public library, both founded by and named in honour of General Sylvanus Thayer (17851872), a well-known military engineer born in Braintree, who was superintendent of the United States Military

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in 18171833 and has been called the " father of West Point." There are large shoe factories and other manufactories. Bog iron was early found in Braintree, and iron-works, among the first in America, were established here in 1644. Braintree was first incorporated in 164o from land belonging to Boston and called

Mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Wollaston, and was named from the town in England. At Merry

Mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

, in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, a settlement was established by

Thomas

Morton in 1625, but the gay life of the settlers and their selling rum and firearms to the Indians greatly offended the Pilgrims of Plymouth, who in 1627 arrested Morton; soon afterward

Governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

John Endecott of Massachusetts Bay visited Merry Mount, rebuked the inhabitants and cut down their Maypole. Later the place was abandoned, and in 1634 a Puritan settlement was made here. In 1708 the town was divided into the North Precinct and the South Precinct, and it was in the former, now Quincy, that John Adams, John 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 Randolph in 1793.
See D. M. Wilson, Quincy, Old Braintree and Merry Mount (Boston, 1906) ; C. F. Adams, Jr., Three Episodes of Massachusetts History (Boston, 1892 and 1896) ; W. S. Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy (Quincy, 1878).

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