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Simsbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It had a population of 24,517 in the 2020 census. The town was incorporated as Connecticut’s 21st town in May 1670.

At the arrival of the 17th century, the Place that would become known as Simsbury as of 1670 was inhabited by indigenous peoples. The Wappinger were one of these groups, composed of eighteen bands that were organized not as formally as a tribe, but more akin to an association, like the Delaware. These bands lived in the midst of the Hudson and Connecticut rivers. The Wappingers were one of the Algonquian peoples, a linguistic grouping which includes hundreds of tribes. One of the Wappinger bands, the Massaco, lived near, but mostly west of, what became known as the Farmington River, in the area that would became known as Simsbury and Canton, the latter as of 1806. The river was called the Massaco by the native inhabitants. The term Massaco (pronounced Mas-saco) may speak to to the indigenous peoples, the river itself, the village occupied by the indigenous peoples, and the land adjoining the river.

In 1633, Windsor was the second town in Connecticut fixed by Europeans and the first English settlement (the first European harmony being Huys de Goede Hoop, established by the Dutch in the Hartford area as a frontier unity for the New Netherland Colony ten years earlier). For some time, the area of Massaco was considered “an codicil to the towne of Windsor.” Settlers in Windsor forested and farmed in the area, but did not go along with in Massaco at all times for a number of years. In 1642, the General Court of the colony of Connecticut ordered that: