Braintree
a town in Norfolk co., Mass.; on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 10 miles S. of Boston. It contains the villages of South and East Braintree; has electric street railroads to the principal nearby towns and villages, and is principally engaged in granite quarrying, and the manufacture of tacks, shoes, wool, rubher goods, and fans. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and other members of BRAKE that family were born here. Pop. (1910) 8,066; (1910) 10,580.