346 PRINCE, SPECK—-DYING AMERICAN SPEECH-ECHOES. [Nov. 6, 
necticut,” by Prof. J. Dyneley Prince and Frank G. Speck, 
was read. 
The Amendments to the Laws recommended by the Officers 
and Council, and duly proposed at the meeting of May 1, 
were adopted. 
DYING AMERICAN SPEECH-ECHOES FROM 
CONNECTICUT. 
BY J. DYNELEY PRINCE, PH.D., AND FRANK G. SPECK. 
(Read November 6, 1903.) 
It was my good fortune last summer to light upon a small and 
little-known reservation on the west bank of the Housatonic river, 
about two miles south of Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., occupied 
by sixteen Skaghticoke Indians. There are, however, about one 
hundred and twenty-five individuals not on the Reserve who claim 
tribal rights and relationship with this clan. The present Indians 
on the Reservation are mixed with a very appreciable percentage of 
negro and white blood and, according to their own account, came 
originally from various Connecticut tribes. The clan is said to 
have been founded in 1728 by one Gideon Mawehu (the modern 
family name Mawee, evidently a corruption of English Mayhew) 
who was either a Pequot or a Wampanoag. The ranks of the 
Skaghticoke settlement were swelled by refugees and stragglers 
from other tribes, until in 1731 they reckoned one hundred and 
fifty warriors. DeForest mentions among these foreign elements 
Potatucks from Newtown and Woodbury, Paugussets from the 
upper Housatonic territory, Salisbury and Sharon Indians origi- 
nally from Windsor, besides Pequots, Narragansetts and Wam- 
panoags. This mixture of race is evidenced in the various loan- 
words of New England origin pointed out below by Professor 
Prince. 
From one man, James Harris, who claims to be a full-blood and 
whose skin certainly shows the dark red hue characteristic of the 
eastern Algic races, I was able to obtain in the old language 
twenty-three words and three connected sentences which Professor 
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