Weekapaug
English edit
Etymology edit
From Narragansett [Term?].
Proper noun edit
Weekapaug
- A census-designated place in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.
- 1674, Daniel Gookin, “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1792, →OCLC, page 147:
- The Narragansitts were a great people heretofore; and the territory of their Sachem extended about thirty or forty miles from Sekunk river and Narragansitt bay, including Rhode Island and other islands in that bay, being their east and north bounds or border, and so running westerly and southerly unto a place called Wekapage, four or five miles to the eastward of Pawcutuk river, which was reckoned for their south and west border, and the easternmost limits of the Pequots.