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Sutton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,963 at the 2010 census. ==History== A Nipmuc, John Wampas, visited England in the 1600s and deeded land in the Sutton area to Edward Pratt. Pratt sold interests in this land to others, and competing claims among them and the Nipmucs led to a General Court case in Massachusetts in 1704, which granted Pratt and his fellow proprietors an eight-mile-square section of land, which is now Sutton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=suttonma.org )〕 Three families were the first to settle on the land, that of Benjamin Marsh, Elisha Johnson and Nathaniel Johnson. Brothers Samuel and Daniel Carriel also occupied the Marsh family cabin. They almost did not survive the first winter - the winter of the "big snow" - which buried their cabins. A friendly Indian found the cabin of the Johnson family only by seeing smoke from the chimney coming out of the snow. The Indian rescued the family, and as Mrs. Johnson recalled, "No voice ever sounded so sweet as that of that Indian down the chimney." Marsh served as a selectman, town moderator and in various other positions of responsibility as the town became established. His daughter, Abigail, was the first child born in Sutton. He also founded its first Baptist church and served as its first minister and elder, a church which continues to exist as a Baptist church in the community to this day.〔Stager, Helen A. and Evelyn, ''A Family Odyssey,'' pp. 106-7, Nicollet Press, Inc., Pipestone, MN, 1983.〕〔Benedict, Rev. William A. and Tracy, Rev. Hiram A., ''History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from 1704 to 1876,'' pp. 18, 21, 255, 689-91, Sanford & Co., Worcester, MA, 1878.〕〔Marsh, William H. III, ''History of our Marsh Family,'' p. 9, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1978.〕 They settled on property in the area called Manchaug, near Marble Village. It is home of one of the oldest schoolhouses in America dating back to the 18th century, according to the Worcester ''Telegram & Gazette''. By 1735, Hassananmisco and a small portion of the northeastern territory of the township of Sutton had incorporated as the town of Grafton. Millbury was set apart from Sutton in 1813. In early days, Millbury was called North Parish. In the 1830s, Wilkinsonville (a section in north Sutton) took its own name; another area name is "Pleasant Valley," now known due to a golf course of the same name in Sutton. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, Sutton was a town that enjoyed both agricultural and industrial benefits. The farms and orchards in the area did very well, as did the three large mills that were built in the Manchaug area.〔(suttonmass.org )〕 The town is part of the historic Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and has several of its sites.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= National Park Service )〕 ==Geography== According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 4.57%, is water. The town contains five villages, known as Sutton Center, Manchaug, Wilkinsonville, West Sutton, and South Sutton. Located in the Blackstone Valley, Sutton shares its borders with the towns of Millbury, Grafton, Northbridge, Douglas, Uxbridge, and Oxford. Purgatory Chasm State Reservation is located in the eastern part of town. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sutton, Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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