Mohetan

The Mohetan were an Indigenous people of the mountain river country west of Virginia's coastal settlements, often associated with the Moneton of the Kanawha valley. In 1671 an English expedition led by Thomas Batte and Robert Hallom reached the upper New River with Indigenous guides. Their journal records meeting a representative of the Mehetan, who had sought news of the strangers among the Totero. The encounter took place as Virginia traders and explorers sought routes beyond the mountains into the western watersheds.