[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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.” The sixmile-long Sasco Brook begins as a freshwater stream that flows along its lower reaches into the Long Island Sound as a tidewater slough known as Sasco Creek. Colonists repeatedly used local Indian support for Pequots defeated at a battle fought in the Sasqua Swamp in 1637 as a pretext to take their lands. The name of a creek called Sasqua was first mentioned in the March 20, 1657, Indian deed to land in the area (in Wojciechowski 1985:87). A small tract along the creek became one of the reservations that colonists set aside for use by the people they referred to as Sasqua Indians. Most Indians living in and around the reservation ultimately sold their lands in 1703. The majority of these people that its romantic associations with Indians and heroic combat would attract upscale homebuyers. Today, the name Sasco is preserved as a street name and as the names of the Sasco River-Kirik and Sasco Creek Marsh open spaces. Sasqua Hills, Sasqua Pond, and Sasqua Road in East Norwalk also maintain the name in its earlier recorded form on regional maps. SAUGATUCK. Whritenour thinks that Saugatuck sounds like a Munsee word, *nzukihtukw, “black river.” The name first appeared as Soakatuck, one of the tracts sold near Norwalk in an Indian deed dated February 26, 1640 (in Robert Bolton 1881 1:389-390). It was subsequently identified ten years later as the Sagatuck River on May 21, 1650 (Wojciechowski 1985:86). Today, Saugatuck graces a river, a reservoir, and a preserve west of the City of Bridgeport. The 24-mile-long Saugatuck River rises at Umpawaug Pond (see below). From there, it flows south past the Saugatuck Falls Natural Area into the Saugatuck Reservoir built in 1938. The river below the dam flows past the Saugatuck neighborhood in the Town of Westport before debouching into the Long Island Sound at Saugatuck Harbor. Similar-looking names in other Eastern AlgoROWAYTON. Whritenour thinks that Rowayton sounds like the nquian languages include Sagadahoc in Maine and Saugus in MasMunsee words *loowathun, “it floats by,” and *loowiitan, “it flows sachusetts (see in Part 3). by.” Today, Rowayton is a neighborhood on the north side of the City of Norwalk (see above). The name first appeared in colonial SCHAGHTICOKE (Litchfield County). Trumbull (1881:64) farecords as “the land of Roatan” and the “creek of Rowayton called vored a Schaghticoke speaker’s 1859 translation for the name, pishFive Mile Creek,” in an Indian deed to land in the area signed on gachtigok, as “the confluence of two streams,” from what linguists March 24, 1645 (Hurd 1881:700). Local residents resurrected regard as the Wampano dialect of Munsee or the Southern New Rowayton as a more distinctive replacement for the lackluster Five England Algonquian Quiripi language. The 400-acre Schaghticoke Mile Creek during the early nineteenth century. The name has since Reservation in the Town of Kent is the center of the present-day 38 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Schaghticoke Tribal Nation. Several places in upstate New York and Massachusetts also are adorned with identically spelled cognates derived from the closely related Mahican language. The Connecticut reservation was originally established on 2,500 acres along the Housatonic River valley in 1736. A substantial portion of the Indian population of western Connecticut, including people who spoke Wampano (Rudes 1997), others who spoke Wappinger (see above in New York in Part 1), and many who spoke Quiripi, Mohegan-Pequot, or Narragansett ultimately moved to Schaghticoke. Moravians operated the mission they named Pachgatkoch (a close phonetic rendering of the Schaghticoke word pishgachtigok) at the locale from 1749 to 1768 (Dally-Starna and Starna 2009). Despite losses that reduced reservation boundaries to lands mostly located on rocky uplands around Schaghticoke Mountain, the people of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation never abandoned the land and maintain it as their national center to the present day. Similar-looking Skiatook in Oklahoma (see in Part 3) is the Siouan name of a prominent nineteenth-century Osage leader. SHIPPAN. Whritenour thinks that Shippan sounds like a truncated form of the Munsee word shiipunaasuw, “it is stretched out or extended.” Shippan Point is a peninsula that juts out into Long Island Sound at the south end of Stamford. The first mention of Shippan occurred in the July 1, 1640, Indian deed