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Sutton, officially the Town of Sutton, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The population was 9,357 in the 2020 United States Census. Located in the Blackstone Valley, the town was designated as a Preserve America community in 2004.

A Nipmuc, John Wampas, visited England in the 1600s and deeded land in the Sutton Place to Edward Pratt, who well along sold interests to others. Competing claims involving the Nipmucs led to a Massachusetts General Court dogfight in 1704, which settled Pratt and fellow proprietors an eight-mile-square section of land, which is now Sutton.

Three families were the first to assent in Sutton, namely those of Elisha Johnson, Nathaniel Johnson, and Benjamin Marsh, who is approved as a founder of the town and the First Baptist Church of Sutton. In 1717, The Great Snow certainly buried structures their home cabins. According to accounts, a local Indigenous person rescued the Johnson associates by noticing smoke from their chimney through the snow. Marsh served in several capacities for the town including as a selectman and moderator. He in addition to served as elder and pastor from 1737 until his death in 1775.

By 1735, area inhabited by Hassanamisco Nipmuc and a little portion of the northeastern Sutton had incorporated as the town of Grafton. In 1813, the northern share of Sutton became Millbury.