Braintree

Braintree, town township, Norfolk region, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along Weymouth Fore River a channel of Hingham Bay, only southeast of Boston. It was settled in 1634 as Monoticut an Algonquian word signifying "plenitude" and was a piece of Boston until the point that it was independently joined in 1640 and named for Braintree in Essex, England. Around then, the town incorporated the territories of present-day Randolph, Holbrook, Quincy, and parts of Milton.

To acquire a reasonable title, the town bought its territory from Native Americans in 1665. Ironworks, utilizing nearby marsh press, were built up there as right on time as 1643, and glassmaking started in 1752. Manufacturing plants worked amid the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years delivered a wide assortment of items, including chocolate, materials, and equipment. Most work in the territory is presently in light of administrations and exchange, despite the fact that assembling stays imperative.