Wiktionary
n. 1 A town in Essex 2 A city in Massachusetts
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 12921
Land area (2000): 13.402651 sq. miles (34.712706 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.628715 sq. miles (1.628365 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.031366 sq. miles (36.341071 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07700
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.209555 N, 70.999683 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 02184
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Braintree
Wikipedia
Braintree may refer to:
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Braintree, Essex, a town in England
- Braintree District
- Braintree (UK Parliament constituency)
- Braintree Town F.C., a football club in the town
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Braintree, Massachusetts, a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Braintree (MBTA station), the southernmost station on the MBTA Red Line in Braintree, Massachusetts
- New Braintree, Massachusetts, a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Braintree, Vermont, a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States
- Braintree (company), a payments service provider based in Chicago, Illinois
- Richard Braintree, a character in the video game Silent Hill 3, see List of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 characters#Richard Braintree
Braintree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by James Cleverly of the Conservative Party.
Braintree, located at Ivory and Union Streets in Braintree, Massachusetts, is the southernmost station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line. It also is a stop on the MBTA Commuter Rail Old Colony Lines. While the tracks of the Red Line and commuter rail lines are all parallel to one another, their platforms are offset; the commuter rail platform is located north of Union Street, while the Red Line platform is south of the street.
The station features a large park and ride garage, with space for 1,322 automobiles (though the garage often fills up on busy days). It can be easily reached from Exit 17 off Route 3. Braintree is fully handicapped accessible on all modes.
Braintree—a subsidiary of PayPal—is a company based in Chicago that specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. Braintree emphasizes its easy integrations, multiple payment method options (including PayPal and Venmo), simple pricing, security, and support.
Braintree provides its customers with a merchant account and a payment gateway, along with various features including recurring billing, credit card storage, support for mobile and international payments, and PCI Compliance solutions.
Usage examples of "braintree".
John Adams, whose first official position in Braintree had been surveyor of roads.
His father had lived his entire life in Braintree, and no Adams had ever taken part in public life beyond Braintree.
When he referred to himself as John Adams of Braintree, it was not in a manner of speaking.
David in Somersetshire, England, with his wife Edith Squire and nine children--eight sons and a daughter--had arrived in Braintree in the year 1638, in the reign of King Charles I, nearly a century before John Adams was born.
IN THE FALL OF 1758, his studies with Putnam completed, Adams returned to Braintree to move in with his father and mother again after an absence of eight years.
Colonel Quincy, as an officer in the militia and possibly the wealthiest man in Braintree, was its leading citizen, but also someone Adams greatly admired for his polish and eloquence.
For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.
But in 1765, the same year little Abigail was born and Adams found himself chosen surveyor of highways in Braintree, he was swept by events into sudden public prominence.
IN 1774, Adams was chosen by the legislature as one of five delegates to the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and with all Massachusetts on the verge of rebellion, he removed Abigail and the children again to Braintree, where they would remain.
Weeks passed, during which Adams, deeply offended, kept silent, then returned to Braintree for a brief visit.
When, after election day, it became known that in Quincy, Braintree, and Weymouth, John Quincy had received every vote cast for the presidency, Adams declared it one of the most gratifying events of his life.
The man riding with him was Joseph Bass, a young shoemaker and Braintree neighbor hired temporarily as servant and traveling companion.
Independent as a Braintree farmer and his family may have been, they were not isolated.
He made the sixty-mile journey from Braintree to Worcester by horseback in a single day and, though untried and untrained as a teacher, immediately assumed his new role in a one-room schoolhouse at the center of town.
Zab Hayward of Braintree, who had no conception of conventional grace in dancing or anything else, was nonetheless regarded as the best dancer in town.