Links for Braintree Maps (draft)

 

1760 -- John Adams map of taverns
"A manuscript map drawn by John Adams with locations of taverns in Braintree and Weymouth, Mass. Adams notes the names of the tavern proprietors, proximity to taverns, and other facts about Braintree and Weymouth."  Image default orientation is south on top, north on bottom. "This brook divides Weymouth from Braintree" would be Smelt Brook / Brookside Road. See the 1831 map for "Little Pond"

1795 -- Braintree by Jonathan Thayer, Digital Commonwealth
Orientation is East on the top, West on the bottom
"For the compilation of a state map, each town in Massachusetts (including those in the five eastern counties now part of Maine) was required by Resolves 1794, May Sess, c 101 to make a town plan based on a survey no more than seven years old, to be submitted to the state secretary's office. Rivers, county roads, bridges, courthouses, places of public worship, and distances of the town center to the county shire town and to Boston were to be included, drawn on a scale of 200 rods to the inch. A map of Massachusetts proper and one of the District of Maine were compiled by Osgood Carleton from these plans and printed in 1802."

1831 -- Surveyors map, Digital Commonwealth
"For the compilation of a more accurate state map, each town in Massachusetts (and the city of Boston) was required by Resolves 1829, c 50 to make a town plan based on a survey no more than five years old, to be submitted to the state secretary's office. Plans, to be drawn on a scale of one hundred rods to the inch, were to include the following information: rivers, waterways, public and private roads, places of public worship, courthouses, other public buildings, distance from town center to county shire town and to Boston, bridges and ferries, falls, ponds, shores, harbors, islands, mountains and hills, mills and manufactories, mines, iron works, meadows, and woodlands."

 

3 Henry Francis Walling Maps, 1853, 1856, 1858

1853 --  Boston Public Library / Leventhal Collection

1856 -- available via Harvard Map Collection

1858 -- Digital Commonwealth
Full size is quite large, medium is rather small. 

Atlas of Norfolk County, Comstock & Cline
1876 -- you might be able to see it on oldmaps.com 

 

1882 -- View of South Braintree Boston Public Library / Leventhal Collection
Includes Thayer Academy. by O H Bailey