Wabquisset
The Wabquisset was a
North Woodstock, Connecticut.[1]
The term also referred to the Native peoples who resided in Wabquisset. Collectively, Indigenous converts to Puritanism were called
Praying Indians
.
The settlement was west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.
Name
Wabquisset is also spelled Wabquissit,[1] Wabuhquoshish,[2] and Wabaquasset.
History
The
These settlements were along or close to the
In 1674, 30 families settled in the praying town. That year, Puritan missionary John Eliot (ca. 1604–1690) preached at Wabquisset.[5]
The colony did not provide a teacher to the community until 1674,[6] when a man named Sampson became their teacher.[5]
The Native people at Wabquisset had previously paid tribute to the Uncas.[5]
Namesake
The
USS Wabaquasset was named for the community.[7]
Notes
- ^ a b c Conkey, Laura E.; Boissevain, Ethel; Goddard, Ives (1978). "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island: Late Period". In Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians: Northeast, Vol. 15. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. p. 187.
- ^ Cogley (2009), 255.
- ^ Cogley (2009), 155.
- ^ Cogley (2009), 166.
- ^ a b c d Cogley (2009), 157.
- ^ Cogley (2009), 163.
- ^ Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Wabaquasset(ship namesake paragraph)
References
- Cogley, Richard W. (2009). John Eliot's Mission to the Indians Before King Philip's War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674029637.