The Wabquisset was a praying town, that is, a settlement for Native American converts to Puritan Christianity, founded in the 1670s near present-day North Woodstock, Connecticut.
The settlement was west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony established this praying town in the territory of the Nipmuc,[1] an Eastern Algonquian language-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.
In 1668, the colony met with Indigenous leaders to plan this and three other Puritan praying towns: Quantisset, Chabanakongkomun, and Manchage.
[5] The United States Navy tugboat USS Wabaquasset was named for the community.