# Maanexit

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'''Maanexit'''  (also spelled '''Manexit''' or '''Mayanexit''') was a [Nipmuc](/source/Nipmuc) village on the [Quinebaug River](/source/Quinebaug_River) ([Maanexit River](/source/French_River_(Massachusetts))) and [Old Connecticut Path](/source/Old_Connecticut_Path) in [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut). The town was located near what is now [Fabyan](/source/Fabyan%2C_Connecticut) in [Thompson, Connecticut](/source/Thompson%2C_Connecticut) and [Woodstock, Connecticut](/source/Woodstock%2C_Connecticut). The name of the town means either "where the road lies" or "where we gather"<ref>"PRAYING TOWNS" Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut Historical Series - Number 2 Second Edition 1995 www.nativetech.org/Nipmuc/praytown.html</ref> which may have been "alluding to a settlement of Christian Indians in the immediate vicinity."<ref>R.A. Douglas-Lithgow, Native American Places Names of Connecticut (2001)p. 17</ref> The village became an Indian [praying town](/source/praying_town) through the influence of [John Eliot](/source/John_Eliot_(missionary)) and [Daniel Gookin](/source/Daniel_Gookin). 

Maanexit was located six miles north of [Quinnatisset](/source/Quinnatisset), another praying town, and Maanexit had about one hundred residents prior to [King Philip's War](/source/King_Philip's_War). In September 1674 Rev. [John Eliot](/source/John_Eliot_(missionary)) visited the village and preached about {{bibleverse||Psalms |24:7-10}} and then appointed a Native American pastor John Moqua as Maanexit's teaching pastor for the [Praying Indians](/source/Praying_Indians) there.<ref>"Gookin's Historical Collections," ''Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society'' Ch. VII (1806), p. 190 (accessible on google books)</ref> After King Philip's War [Black James](/source/Black_James) deeded some of the land making up the village to white settlers.
<ref>"Wullumahchein" http://nativenortheastportal.com/bio/bibliography/wullumahchein</ref><ref>Connole, ''The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England,'' 111, 162, 164, 236</ref>
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Category:History of New England
Category:King Philip's War
Category:Native American Christianity
Category:Native American history of Connecticut
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