GRAFTON, a town of Worcester county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 8m. S.E. of Worcester; served by the Boston and Albany and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railways. The popu lation (about 3o% foreign-born white) was 7,030 in 193o. The several villages are residential suburbs of Worcester, and there are cotton and woollen mills, a shoe factory and other manufacturing industries. Within the present limits of the town was an Indian village where John Eliot soon after 1651 organized the third of his bands of "praying Indians." The Massachusetts general court granted to the Indians 4 sq.m. for their exclusive use. In 1718 they sold a small farm to the first white settler, and in 1728 a large tract to a group of colonists. The town was incor porated in '735 and named after the second duke of Grafton. The last of the pure-blooded Indians died about 1825.