Tunxis

This article is about the Native American tribe. For the Community College in Farmington, Connecticut, see Tunxis Community College.

The Tunxis were a Native American tribe historically linked to the Wappinger that lived by a sizeable bend on the Farmington River near where Farmington and Southington in Hartford County, Connecticut exist today. The name Tunxis comes from the Wuttunkshau-sepus word meaning "the point where the river bends". (Trumbull) Though they engaged in basket and food trade with the first settlers to what is now Farmington, the tribe was subject to Sequassen, the sachem who sold the English the land that became Hartford, Connecticut. In 1610 they sold the greater part of their territory, and around 1700 still retained a small village in the growing settlement Farmington, but by 1761 they had largely left the area.

External links

• Farmington Historical Society
• Wappinger
• Stanley-Whitman House Museum