Woccon

The Woccon were a people of eastern Carolina whose language was related to Catawba. Early in the eighteenth century, John Lawson recorded two Woccon villages, Yupwauremau and Tooptatmeer, near Tuscarora settlements along the lower Neuse River. He counted some 120 warriors among them. His 1709 account also preserved a vocabulary of their language, a rare record of their speech. The Woccon joined the Tuscarora against the English colonists during the war of 1711–1713, a conflict that devastated Indigenous communities in the region. Survivors were most likely absorbed into the Tuscarora, who moved north and by 1722 joined the Haudenosaunee as the sixth nation.