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Braintree is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States created by Vermont charter on August 1, 1781. The population was 1,207 at the 2020 census. Braintree includes the places Braintree Center, Braintree Hill, East Braintree, West Braintree, Peth and Snowsville.

History

There were two sets of petitioners for the original grant of Braintree in 1779. One group had also petitioned for the grants of Roxbury and Northfield and were thought to be land speculators. The other group, who only petitioned for the Braintree grant, received approval in November 1780. The Braintree grant did not receive an executive sanction and seal until August 1, 1781, when Governor Chittenden issued the charter. The group of original proprietors were nearly entirely from Braintree, Massachusetts.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.3&nbsp;square miles (99.2&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which 38.3&nbsp;square miles (99.1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.04&nbsp;square mile (0.1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) (0.10%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census

  • Waldo Flint, member of the Wisconsin Senate
  • Jefferson P. Kidder, lawyer, jurist and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
  • Eleazer Parmly, first provost of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry
  • Francis V. Randall, Union Army colonel during the American Civil War
  • Gurdon P. Randall, architect
  • J. J. R. Randall, architect
  • Daniel Robbins, art historian

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