{{Short description|Potatuck sachem (died 1735)}} [[File:Waramaug.webp|thumb|Chief Waramaug depicted on a postcard created for the 1907 New Milford Bicentennial]]
'''Waramaug''', alternatively spelled '''Wehanonaug''', was a sachem of the Potatuck Native American tribe, folded into the current Schaghticoke tribe, who lived along the length of the Housatonic River, until his death in 1735.<ref name=Tomaino>{{cite book|last1=Tomaino|first1=Peter|title=Chronology: Under Candlewoods, Roots at Squantz Pond|date=1985|publisher=EARTH ONE|location=West Cornwall, CT|url=http://www.newfairfieldlibrary.org/filestorage/92/355/Chronology_Under_Candlewoods_by_Peter_Tomaino___1985_2013.pdf}}</ref> He succeeded Squantz in 1725, and in turn was succeeded as sachemship of the Potatuck after his death by one of Chief Squantz's sons, Mauwehu.
According to Tomaino citing Smith, he ruled in a time when the Wepawaugs, Pequannocks, Paugassetts, and Pootatucks were reblending into a single tribe.<ref name=Tomaino/><ref name=Smith>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Chard Powers|title=The Housatonic - Puritan River - Rivers of America|date=1946|publisher=Rinehart and Company}}</ref>
According to Tomaino citing Orcutt, "That Waramaug was 'the most potent prince of that or any other day in this colony,' is probably a very correct judgment, and would have been demonstrated had there been any occasion for Indian Wars, since he could have called into the field all the warriors of Western Connecticut."<ref name=Tomaino/><ref name=Orcutt>{{cite book|last1=Orcutt|first1=Samuel|title=The Indians of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys|url=https://archive.org/details/indianshousaton00orcugoog|date=1882|location=Hartford}}</ref>
==Legacy== A monument to Waramaug was erected after his death in 1735, near the gorge to the northeast of Falls Mountain.<ref name=Tomaino/><ref name=Orcutt/>
Lake Waramaug is named after him. Lake Lillinonah is named for his daughter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rigg |first1=Mackenzie |title=Lakes named for two Native American chiefs and a princess |url=https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Lakes-named-for-two-Native-American-chiefs-and-a-9125119.php |access-date=10 August 2025 |work=News Times |date=5 August 2016}}</ref>
==Further reading== *{{cite news|last1=Epstein|first1=Ruth|title=Yale student researching Schaghticoke tribe history|publisher=The News-Times (Danbury)|date=September 26, 1982}} *{{cite book|last1=Giddings|first1=Allie Hungerford|title=A History of Sherman|date=1978|publisher=Sherman Historical Society|location=Sherman, Connecticut}} *{{cite news|last1=Raacke|first1=Peg|title=Town History: Housatonic Valley Indians|publisher=Citizen News (New Fairfield)|date=April 28, 1977}} *{{cite book|last1=Silverberg|first1=J.|title=The History of Squantz Pond State Park, New Fairfield, CT|date=June 1979|publisher=manuscript from New Fairfield Free Public Library|location=New Fairfield, Connecticut}} *{{cite book|last1=Simon|first1=Irving B.|title=Our Town: The History of New Fairfield|date=1975|publisher=New Fairfield Bicentennial Commission|location=New Fairfield, Connecticut|page=5}}
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Category:18th-century Native American people Category:Native Americans in Connecticut Category:Schaghticoke tribe Category:Native American leaders Category:Year of birth unknown