[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] around western Connecticut’s Pequonnock River valley. PONUNCAMO. Ponuncamo Road is another of the Indian names provided by the Fairfield Historical Society to the developer of the Lake Hills subdivision in 1952. Ponuncamo was a prominent Indian participant in several land sales made in the area during the 1660s (in Wojciechowski 1985:95-96). PONUS. The name of this sachem, who sold several tracts of land along the present-day Connecticut–New York border, is preserved as Ponus Ridge and Ponus Ridge Avenue in New Canaan, as Ponus Avenue in the City of Norwalk, and in other locales discussed in the entry for Peningo in New York. RAMAPO. First noted in New Jersey in 1700 as Ramapough, this name was next mentioned on September 30, 1708, as the Ramapoo Indian community on the Connecticut–New York line represented by the sachem Katonah (see in New York in Part 1) in the last deed he signed in the Town of Ridgefield (in Robert Bolton 1881 1:392393). Today, Ramapo Road in present-day Fairfield is located where other New Jersey–New York borderland Delaware Indian place names such as Pequannock and Nowenock (see Naraneka and NorPEQUONNOCK. The Pequonnock River in Connecticut is a 17- rans above) also originated. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 37 RIPPOWAM. Whritenour thinks Toquam, the earliest known documented form of Rippowam, sounds like a Munsee word, *ptukquiim, “walnut.” Rippowam is the name of a 17-mile-long river that runs from the Town of Pound Ridge (see in New York in Part 1) into Connecticut, where it flows into the Long Island Sound at Stamford Harbor. Toquam was the name of a tract that Ponus (see above) sold to a group of settlers on July 1, 1640 (in Robert Bolton 1881 2:104). The colonists gave the name Stamford to the new community they established at the locale (Huntington 1868:17, 67-68). Stamford colonists began calling the stream running through their town the Mill River as early as 1655 (Robert Bolton 1881 2:105). The oldest records documenting local use of the name Rippowam as another name for Mill River date to the first decade of the 1900s. Even today, the lower eight-mile-long tidal stretch of the stream flowing from the sluiceway outlets of the North Stamford Reservoir Dam to Stamford Harbor continues to be called the Mill River. ROMANOCK. Romanock Road is located in the Lake Hills development built in 1952 where Cricker Brook flows into the Samp Mortar Reservoir. It is another of the names given by the Fairfield Historical Society to the developer for his subdivision. The name comes from papers documenting a seventeenth-century land dispute in the area. On June 11, 1683, Mohegan sachem Uncas declared that his “intimate friend and acquaintance” who he identified as Romanuck, lived at Sarquag (present-day Sasco). He further said that although “Romanuck. . . was a captain and of some note,” he was not a sachem “that had rights to lands.” Uncas ended by saying that Romanock’s father lived “at or near to Wombeeg at a particular place called Pahsicogoweenog” (in Wojciechowski 1985:107). A year later, other records dated May 5 and June 16, 1684, noted that Romonock was a “foreign” war captain living in the area who also maintained a residence near the “Hutson” River at Pawchequage at what was probably present-day Poughquag, New York (J. Davis 1885:122-137). Romanock was also said to have several wives, including one who reportedly died at “Mawhegemuck, called Albeny.” Maghagkemack (see Machackemeck in New York in Part 1), at present-day Port Jervis, was located within the bounds of what Connecticut colonists could plausibly refer to as the Albany government. Wombeeg sounds much like Wappinger, and both Pahsicogoweenog and Pawchequage resemble the aforementioned Poughquag in present-day Dutchess County (see Poughquag and Wappinger in New York in Part 1). Although a letter written on March 28, 1679 identifies him as the “late sachem of Aspetuck and Sasquanaugh” (Schenck 1889:211), he or a namesake may have become the leader variously known as Nowenock and Manonck (see Manayunk and Nanuet in New York in Part 1 above) who died in 1726 (Waterman and J. Smith 2013:269-271). been applied to a number of local thoroughfares, the Rowayton community’s millpond and dam, and a number of other places in and around the village. SASAPEQUAN. Sasapequan Road is located in the Lake Hills development built in 1952 in the Town of Fairfield. Furnished at the developer’s request by the Fairfield Historical Society, the name first appeared as Sasapequna, one of the Indians who signed a deed to land in the area on October 6, 1680 (Wojciechowski 1985:105). SASCO. Trumbull (1881:63) thought that Sasco came from such Eastern Algonquian words as the Delaware assiskene, “marshy, muddy,” and the Massachusett wosoki or wosohski, “in the marshes.” Whritenour largely concurs, suggesting Sasco may be an occurrence of a Munsee word, asiiskuw, “mud or clay.”