Below are two pages from a book called The History of the Town of Sutton from 1704-1878.  This lengthy book was compiled by Rev. William Benedict and Rev. Hiram Tracy and published in 1878.  The book is a much detailed account of the lives, genealogy, life events and the  pursuits of the people of Sutton, Massachusetts.  Sutton, before it was divided into two "towns" or "townships" in 1813, was more like a very large "county".  Our ancestors the Chases and Crossmans, are mentioned  as people actively involved in community  affairs,  Sutton was a place on the cutting edge of the early American Industrial Revolution. The book contains pictures of homes and factories that are amazing to see.  You may find this book for your own research by googleing Google Books Online.  When you get to that web site, type in the name of the book above.  You can then download the book (an Adobe Acrobat file) to your computer and access to read the book with Adobe Reader.  The book has a very good index in the back on page 851.

The "Perley" Whipple mentioned on the page at the left was probably "Parley" Whipple as mentioned in the excerpt from page 746 of the History of the town of Sutton...... seen below. Perhaps "Valorus" Whipple is his son who marries Eliza Ann Crossman, daughter of Noah and Freedom .

Below on page 526, is a is a snippet from the same book explaining the function of "trip hammers" and their importance in new methods of mass production.  The a clip from page 527 on the left shows the number of manufacturing  establishments there were in Sutton as early as 1793.