Editing Brookline, Massachusetts (section)

===Etymology===
Brookline was known as the hamlet of '''Muddy River''' and was considered part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was independently incorporated in 1705. (The [[Muddy River (Massachusetts)|Muddy River]] was used as the Brookline–Boston border at incorporation.) The name is said to derive from a farm therein once owned by Judge [[Samuel Sewall]].<ref>{{cite book
| author = Dudley, Dean (1871)
| title =Brookline, Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury Directory for 1871; Containing a General Directory of the Residents, Town Registers, Business Directory, Map, &c., &c.
| year = 1871
| publisher=Dean Dudley & Co.
| location =  Boston
| pages = 15–16
| quote = The name of Brookline came, as the late Rev. Samuel Sewall (great grandson of Judge Samuel Sewall) conjectures, from one of the farms within its bounds, namely the Gates' farm, hired of Judge Sewall, which was probably called Brookline because Smelt Brook, running through it, formed the line between that and one of the neighboring farms, and this brook also separated that farm from Cambridge.  Judge Sewall, in his journal, often mentions the name "Brookline" before the town was incorporated.  Rev. Mr. S. also thinks it was Judge Sewall who suggested that name for the town.}}</ref> Originally, the property of CPT [[John Hull (merchant)|John Hull]] and Judith Quincy Hull. Judge Sewall came into possession of this tract, which embraced more than 350 acres, through Hannah Quincy Hull (Sewall) who was the Hull's only daughter. John Hull in his youth lived in Muddy River Hamlet, in a little house which stood near the Sears Memorial Church. Hull removed to Boston, where he amassed a large fortune for those days. Judge Sewall probably never lived on his Brookline estate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/proceedings/1903/1903_Sewall.html|title=1903 Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society|website=Brooklinehistoricalsociety.org}}</ref>