Monahassanugh

Monahassanugh was a town in the upper James River country, upstream from the Monacan centre at Rassawek. Its people, later known as the Nahyssan or Tutelo, were closely related to the Monacan and paid tribute to them. In the seventeenth century, war and colonial encroachment brought movement among the peoples of the Virginia interior. By the 1670s some Nahyssan had settled on an island at the meeting of the Staunton and Dan rivers, above the country of the Occaneechi.