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History of Sutton, Massachusetts, USA

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Visit Sutton, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

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• 1704 - Sutton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1714 - Sutton is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - SUTTON. [Pop. 2,370. Inc 1715.]
  The settling of Sutton was retarded by the Indian wars.
  
  It is a pleasant town, situated on the Blackstone and its branches.
  
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• 1848 - Sutton
  This town was originally purchased by a number of persons of John Wampus, a sachem, and his company of Indians, who claimed it, and was confirmed to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1853 - Sad Occurrence
  Mrs. Mary Whiting, an aged lady of nearly 90 years, was burned to death in Sutton, Massachusetts, on Sabbath evening. She was alone in the house, the ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Sutton
  Sutton, a post- village in Worcester co., Massachusetts, near the Blackstone river and canal, and the Providence and Worcester railroad, 42 miles W....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1865 - Thank You to Soldiers
  A noble woman, by the name of Susan Williams, South Sutton, Massachusetts, gives to every soldier who enlisted from that town, on his return, the sum ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1879 - 100 Pet Cats
  Miss Mary Jane Wadleigh, of Sutton, Massachusetts, has one hundred pet cats, and when one of them dies she has it buried in its grave marked by a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
  Thomas Blanchard, born in 1788, at Sutton, Massachusetts; died in 1864; invented a tack machine in 1806; builds a successful steam carriage in 1825;...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Sutton Massachusetts, 1890
  Sutton is an agricultural and manufacturing town of 3,101 inhabitants, situated in the southeastern section of Worcester County, about 40 miles...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Cemetery and Town Hall, Sutton, Mass.
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  School House, Sutton, Mass
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  First Congregational Church, Sutton, Mass.
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  Residence Street, Looking East, Sutton, Mass.
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  Road at West Sutton, Sutton, Mass.
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• 1906
  Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328 ; of the village,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1910 - Signed "Wife"
  Up in Sutton, Massachusetts, a young woman organist wrote a preacher and signed herself "wife." And the organist's play-ful ways caused the deuce of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Town Hall
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• 1916 - Sutton
  Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328; of the village,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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