BRAINTREE, a town of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 34.5sq.m. in area, about ten m. south of Boston. Its villages (Braintree, South Braintree, East Braintree and Brain tree Highlands) are served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population was 10,580 in 1920, of whom 2,276 were foreign-born whites; 15,712 in 1930 Federal census. The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $18,000,000; and the manufactured products in 1925 (chiefly shoes, nails, leather, rubber and woollen goods) were valued at $15,144,475. Braintree was incorporated in 1640, from land belonging to Boston, and was named after the town in England. In 1708 it was divided into the North Precinct (now Quincy) and the South Precinct. Quincy was separated from Braintree in 1792 and Randolph in was found here at an early date, and ironworks were established in