Massinacak

Massinacak was a Monacan town on the James River, near the mouth of Mohawk Creek. It lay upstream from Mowhemencho, another Monacan settlement visited by Christopher Newport's English expedition in November 1608. The Monacan held the inland country beyond the falls of the James and were rivals of the Powhatan Confederacy on the coastal plain. John Lederer and Major Harris visited the town, also called Mahock, in 1670 and recorded that its men possessed muskets.