Mohegan Places Names in Connecticut
Taken from Indian Names of Places Etc,
in and on the Borders of Connecticut
by J. Hammond Trumbull, 1881
Mohegan Name Alternate Description of Place Translation of Name Modern Mohegan
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Connecticut on the long tidal-river Kônuktukut
Hammonasset Athamonas’set and Clinton (southern part of old Hámônasut
Wut-hamonasset Killingworth) and the river which
bounds it on the west. In Uncas’s deed
to Saybrook, 1666, the land (or some
locality near the river is called
Woothomonasak, and the river is
Homonasuk.
Mach’emood’us Moodus East Haddam, particularly the there is a bad noise Macimotus or Motus
northwest part of town, near Mount
Tom. Contracted to Moodus, it gives
name to a branch of the Salmon River
and to a manufacturing village.
Mashantuckuck Shantuk the Mohegan reservation on the west place of many woods Shantuk
side of Thames river, in Montville. A
part of this reservation, near the river,
is still called Shantuck.
Mashantuckset Mushantuxet, a tract reserved for the Groton Pequots well-forested Mashantukut
– now in the town on Ledyard; ‘for the
most part a region of craggy, well-
forested hills; (History of New London,
604) This seems to be the diminuitive
of the preceding name, distinguishing
the ‘smaller wooded tract of land’ from
the Mohegan reservation on the other
side of the Thames.
Massapeag Mashpeag a tract of land sold by Uncas to Richard land on the great cove Másapiyak
Haughton, 1658. Its eastern bound was
a long cove and its western boundary
was Oxyboxy brook.
Mistick Mystic Mystic river, between Stonington and missi-tuk ‘great tidal- Mistik
Groton. The name properly belongs to river.’
the estuary.
Mohegan Monheganick the territory occupied by Uncas and his country of wolves Môhikaniks
band of Mohegans (Muhkehaneuk) at
the coming of the English. The name
was specially appropriated to a tract of
land near the great bend of the river
Thames, south of Trading Cove, now
the township of Montville (including
the villages of Uncasville and
Mohegan).
Moosup Mooshup (formerly, Moosup's) river: flows Mosup
westerly through Sterling and
Plainfield, to the Quinebaug. So called
from Maussup, the Narraganset
sachem, better known as Pessicus,
brother of Miantonimo. A pond in the
northeast part of the Plainfield (one of
the feeders of the river), and a
manufacturing village and railroad
station in Plainfield, bear the same
name.
Nayantaquit Nehantic the territory occupied by the sea-side at a point of land on a tidal Nayantik
Indians eas ant west of the Pequot river, or estuary
country, about the ‘river points’ of
Pawcatuck, Thames and Niantic rivers.
Oxopaugsuck Oxoboxo, Oxyboxy a small pond in the northern parish of the brook which flows out Áksápáksuk
New London (now Montville) and a of the small pond
wild dashing brook which issues from
it and flows south east to he Thames
near Uncasville.
Quinnip’iac Quillipiac, New Haven; originally, the alnd near long-water land Qinupiyak
Quiripiac the head of new Haven harbor and the
estuary of Quinnipiac and Mill rivers.
Unggwonshackcook Wonggunnshoake a place ‘at the crotch of a river called land at the bend, or crotch, Wôkôsháwaki
(1666) by the English Fawn River, where the of the brook.
road crosses the same from Colchester
to Hartford.’ [Chandler’s survey, 1705]
The crotch of Fawn River and
Blackledge’s River is in the
southeastern part of Marlborough a
little west of Heborn line.
Winnsohchook Winsachewett a bound-mark in the Mohegan southern a great cliff of rocks
line; ‘a great clift of rocks’ on the west
side of Eight-mile river in Lyme, nearly
2 ½ miles east by north, northerly from
Stone’s Rock. [Chandler, 1705,
Mohegan Case 50]
Wongumbaug wonunpaug pond, in South Coventry. The name bent or crooked pond Wôkôpák
was extended over a considerable tract
of land in the part of Coventry and
southern part of Tolland.