Sutton Town
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Nipmuc Indians inhabited the Suon area and perhaps
their first official alliance with the English was with
surveyors, William Stoughton and Joseph Dudley. In 1681
a deed was signed between the Indians and the two
surveyors that conveyed 2,000 acres in 1685. In 1712 this
acreage became known as the “Manchaug Farms” and in
1722 parcels were sold to Richard Waters and Samuel Rich
that included the enre village of West Suon, the Town
Farm, most of the Whier Farm and a large area further
south. However, the land was not located in an
incorporated township. In 1723 both the Waters and Rich farms were annexed to Oxford unl Waters Farm in 1726 and the Rich Farm in 1728 were annexed to Suon.
On May 15, 1704 Governor Joseph Dudley granted an eight square mile tract to ten proprietors in Boston to form the Town of Suon. This tract was part of much larger holdings that were transferred by the Nave American, Wampus, to English owners in 1679. In 1716 three families seled here. By the following year, thirty families had seled in the new town. A spot at the intersecon of two exisng Nave trails, now Boston Road and Singletary Avenue, was selected by proprietors as the site for a future town meeng house, training field, and burial ground. In 1719 the first meeng‐house was built.
The area at the intersecon of Boston and Uxbridge Roads that is the present Town Common was first known as a “training field”. Between 1714 and 1719 the Suon Proprietors laid out thirty‐acre home lots for proprietors and forty‐acre lots for selers.
Aer 1714, town boundaries changed several mes. Parts of Suon were annexed to the towns of Westborough, Upton, Graon, Ward (Auburn), Uxbridge and Northbridge. The largest change came in 1813 when Suon’s north parish was incorporated as a separate town of Millbury. The present town boundaries were established in 1907.
Suon proprietors originally set aside 200 acres located immediately east of the training field for the benefit of the town’s schools. Town records show that in 1725 the town voted to sell some of the school land to raise money for school expenses. The earliest schools were kept in private homes and in 1730 it was voted to keep school in four districts of the town. Several school buildings were built in Suon between 1775 and 1830. In 1831 thirteen districts were established with schools built in each one.