Doeg

The Doeg, also called the Taux or Dogue, were an Algonquian-speaking people of the upper Potomac River in what became northern Virginia. One account places their earlier home in King George County, from which they split into three groups around 1557.

When John Smith explored the Potomac in 1608 he found their main town, Tauxenent, on the neck of land later called Mason Neck, with hamlets at Pamacocack, the later Quantico; they fished the river and grew corn. They may have been a branch of the Nanticoke of the Maryland Eastern Shore and spoke a dialect close to Piscataway.

A Doeg raid in July 1675 brought savage militia reprisals that helped ignite Bacon's Rebellion, after which the Doeg cease to appear in colonial records as a distinct community.