Talk:Braintree, Massachusetts
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Hello, Someone else. Thanks for doing this stub on Braintree, Massachusetts. You know, I could have sworn there was such a place, but I searched the Wikipedia database when I started the Braintree disambiguation page, and couldn't find it, so I thought I must have just imagined hearing about it! Unfortunately, I'm a little confused by the stub... What do you mean by towns and/or cities being "split off" from it? Do you mean that it was divided up and parts of it were renamed? Is the main part of it still called "Braintree, Massachusetts", and if so, how did the Rambot manage to miss it...? (Okay, that last question isn't really aimed at you...) -- Oliver P. 20:08 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
In colonial times the town of Braintree consisted of the area occupied by present-day Braintree, Weymouth, Holbrook, Randolph, and Quincy. Quincy was I believe the part of Braintree owned by The Adams family (of John Adams and John Quincy Adams fame), and was made it's own town by the Adams', I think. I'm not sure why Weymouth and the others split off, but this type of thing isn't entirely uncommon in the older states.
