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Wisquosucks (Squassucks Point)

Wisquosucks is a Brookhaven placename for Squassucks Point on the Carmans River, associated with an Unkechaug person recorded in deeds and leases. Wisquosucks is a point of land on the Connecticut River, now the Carmans River, in Brookhaven town. The name was later abbreviated as Squassucks and appears in forms including Wesquasesac, Wisguassuck, Wesquasuks, and Wisquoriake. The placename is personal as well as geographic, tied to an Unkechaug man who resided on the point and appears in late seventeenth-century deeds and leases. The name is treated as that of an Unkechaug owner or dweller rather than as a separate landscape translation. Why Place Names Matter “It must be recognised that before the arrival of Europeans every place of significance to the existing inhabitants was already named.” — Australian National Placenames Survey, Frequently Asked Questions (n.d.),...