Saukiog

Member of an American Indian people who lived in the Hartford area of Connecticut by the 1600s. They spoke an Algonquian dialect. Like the Quinnipiac, the Saukiog were friends of the British, from whom they sought protection from the fierce Pequot and Mohegan. In 1636 Sequassen, the Saukiog sachem (chief), sold their land to the British. Some Saukiog appear to have subsequently joined the Algonquian-speaking Mattabesic and, after 1650, the Pocumtuc, another Algonquian group.