Mattabeseck
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Mattabeseck
According to Dutch maps of the American Colonies from the early 17th Century, Mattabeseck appears to be a large area of American Indian land just to the north of New Haven, Connecticut between the Housatonic and Connecticut Rivers. This land was eventually absorbed by the English Colony of Connecticut.
Mattabeseck also refers to the North American Indian tribe of the same name, and formerly to the English town of Middletown, Connecticut, which sprang up around this same area in the early 17th Century who originally adapted that name for their town.
Also spelled Mattabesett, Mattabesic, or Mattabesec; their land appears to be also referred to as the Makimanes and are apparently a branch of, either descendant or originating, the Algonquian Indian tribe or tribes of people: especially that of the Quinnipiack Indians.
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