Mahock

Mahock appears in seventeenth-century accounts of the Indigenous peoples of Virginia's inland river country. The name was associated with a Monacan town on the James, also recorded as Massinacak, and with people connected to the Manahoac farther north. In 1670 John Lederer and Major Harris visited Monacan towns on the James and found that their inhabitants possessed muskets. These communities lived beyond the falls of the coastal rivers, amid the growing pressures of warfare and English settlement.