Maanexit (also spelled Manexit or Mayanexit) was a Nipmuc village on the Quinebaug River (Maanexit River) and Old Connecticut Path in Connecticut.
The name of the town means either "where the road lies" or "where we gather"[1] which may have been "alluding to a settlement of Christian Indians in the immediate vicinity.
"[2] The village became an Indian praying town through the influence of John Eliot and Daniel Gookin.
John Eliot visited the village and preached about Psalms 24:7–10 and then appointed a Native American pastor John Moqua as Maanexit's teaching pastor for the Praying Indians there.
[3] After King Philip's War Black James deeded some of the land making up the village to white settlers.