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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 term also referred to the Native peoples who resided in Wabquisset. Collectively, Indigenous converts to Puritanism were called Praying Indians. The settlement was west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.