[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 to land in the area (in Robert Bolton 1881 2:104). It later appeared as Shipan Point in the 1696 Thornton map. Townsfolk shared land at Shippan as commonage before dividing it into private lots at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Shippan Point remained a small farming and residential community until the late nineteenth century, when the opening of Shippan House and several amusement parks converted it into a popular resort locale. Local homeowners established the Shippan Improvement Association in 1902 to maintain the place as confirmation of an earlier sale of land in the area (in Wojciechowski 1985:101). sounds like a Northern Unami word, *msimpeekw, “hickory nut pond.” TACKORA. A street named the Tackora Trail in the Town of Ridgefield bears one of several names colonists used to identify the local sachem Nowenock. See Naraneka and Norrans above for a discussion of the evidence linking these names. TAPORNECK. Taporneck Court is a street name in a Ridgefield subdivision built in 1982. Taporneck was the name of a prominent Pequonnock Paugusset sachem first mentioned in land sales in Connecticut in 1680. He later put his mark to a number of deeds to lands along the borders separating lower New York from Connecticut in the east and New Jersey to the south next to such spellings of his name as Taparnekan, Taparanick, and Taporanecam between 1696 and 1723. The spelling of this sachem’s name currently on Ridgefield maps was recently retrieved from local records and adopted at the suggestion of the local town historian. TAQUOSHE. Taquoshe Place 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, Taquoshe’s name first appeared as an Indian signatory to the December 29, 1686, deed (in Wojciechowski 1985:110) to land at Umpawage (see below). TASHUA. Whritenour thinks Tashua sounds like a Delaware Indian word, *tahtachuw, “stiff hill.” The name first appeared in a family above for further information. in the July 18, 1640, Indian deed to land across the New York line from present-day Greenwich (Hurd 1881:365-366). The freshwater SYMPAUG. Today, Sympaug Brook is the name of a three-mile- upper part of the stream that extends into New York is today known long stream that rises at Sympaug Pond at the upper end of the Town as the Rippowam River (see above and in New York in Part 1). Its of Redding. The stream flows from Redding north to its junction tidewater reach is called Mill Brook. Several places in the area with the Still River at Danbury. The Simpaug Turnpike was origi- named Tomac (see below) bear a respelled variant of Tatomuck. nally a toll road that still runs between the town center of Bethel and U.S. Route 7 in Redding along much the same route first TITICUS. Whritenour thinks Titicus sounds like a Munsee word, charted by the Simpaug Turnpike Company in 1832. The origin of *thihtukwus, “cold little river.” The name first appeared under its the name is obscure; Sanders (2009) notes that it appears as Syen- current spelling in Indian deeds to land along the present-day border pauge and as Semi-Pog, a brook in Danbury, recorded in 1795. of Connecticut and New York signed between 1715 and 1729 Whritenour notes that Simpaug resembles Simpeck, a long-forgot- (Robert Bolton 1881 1:393-394; Hurd, 1881:635-638). Titicus is ten name of a mountain in northern New Jersey’s present-day Pe- the name of a west-flowing river that runs from Connecticut into quannock Township. Whritenour further suggests that Simpeck New York, as well as a hamlet, a mountain, and several roads in the Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet form as the name of a one-square-mile-sized tract in a December 26, 1686, Indian deed in northern Fairfield, and as Ompaquag in a deed dated September 12, 1687 (in Wojciechowski 1985:111). The name was first applied to the present-day pond in the form of Umpewange in a September 30, 1708, deed to land in the locale (in Robert Bolton 1881 1:329-333). Umpawaug Hill was first noted in a colonial patent dated May 1, 1723. The Umpawaug District School, opened in 1790 and closed in 1931, is preserved as a historic site. WAHACKME. Today, Wahackme