Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA: Veenkoloniale Genealogieën

Notes:
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It borders Newton (part of Middlesex County) to the west and Boston (part of Suffolk County) to the east, north, south, northwest, and southwest; it is therefore non-contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town was 57,107.

History

Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline was first settled by European colonists in the early 1600s. It was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and considered a part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was independently incorporated in 1705. Its name is derived from the brooks that created the town lines with the former towns of Brighton and Roxbury (both now parts of Boston).

Veterans of the American Revolutionary War from Brookline were granted land and settled in the Brookline neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, naming it after their previous home as well as the many streams of their new home.

Its physical separation from the rest of Norfolk County comes from the fact that the former towns of West Roxbury and Hyde Park were both part of the county until they were absorbed by Boston. Throughout its history, Brookline resisted being absorbed by Boston, thus giving it its separation from the rest of Norfolk County proper. (See The Brookline-Boston Annexation Issue of 1873.)

Brookline has long been regarded as a pleasant and verdant environment. In 1841 edition of The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing described the area this way:

"The whole of this neighborhood of Brookline is a kind of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America of the sort, so inexpressibly charming as the lanes which lead from one cottage, or villa, to another. No animals are allowed to rund the open gates, with tempting vistas and glimpses under the pendent boughs, give it quite an Arcadian air of rural freedom and enjoyment. These lanes are clothed with a profusion of trees and wild shrubbery, often almost to the carriage tracks, and curve and wind about, in a manner quite bewildering to the stranger who attempts to thread them alone; and there are more hints here for the lover of the picturesque in lanes than we ever saw assembled together in so small a compass."

The town has since seen considerable development, though still does maintain a considerable amount of greenspace in certain neighborhoods.

Birth

Matches 1 to 5 of 5

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth	Person ID	Tree
1	Kennedy, Eunice Mary	10 Jul 1921	I673274	savenije
2	Kennedy, John Fitzgerald	29 May 1917	I672590	savenije
3	Kennedy, Joseph Patrick	25 Jul 1915	I686795	savenije
4	Kennedy, Robert Francis	20 Nov 1925	I672898	savenije
5	Sargent, Charles Sprague	24 Apr 1841	I688208	savenije