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ford about i mile above Fox Neck, just below the mouth of a small 

 stream now known as Sissens Run, but designated as Fleshman's R. 

 on the Nine Sheet Map, 1827. 



Leaving the Rapidan, the trail continued southward to the crossing 

 of the James at the present town of Goochland. On the opposite or 

 right bank of the James, above the ferry, is the mouth of Mohawk 

 Creek. It is evident the Manahoac, or rather some part of them, 

 moved southward from the valley of the Rapidan or the Rappahannock 

 over the old route and arrived at the James, where they may have re- 

 mained before continuing down the river to the falls. Their camp 

 was probably at the mouth of the creek, to which their name was soon 

 applied. 



The name of another creek suggests the identity of the Manahoac 

 tribe that had " sett downe neer the falls of James river, to the num- 

 ber of six or seaven hundred ". 



On the 1624 map the village of Shackaconia is indicated on the right 

 bank of the Rapidan a short distance above the mouth of the stream, 

 and it is assumed to have occupied a site on or near Fox Neck, or 

 possibly at the present Skinkers Ford, where traces of an extensive 

 settlement have been discovered. No one of the sites would have been 

 more than a few miles from the trail that led southward from the 

 Rapidan to the James. 



The camping place of the Indians who had come from afar and had 

 settled near the falls of the James was on, or in the vicinity of, 

 the headwaters of Shaccoe Creek, which flows into the James within 

 the City of Richmond. A manuscript map in the " Byrd Title Book ", 

 in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society, dated early in 

 the year 1663, shows the creek bearing the legend: " Shaccoe Creek 

 formerly Called Chyinak ". It is now suggested that the new name 

 Shaccoe was derived from that of the Indians who had a few years 

 before settled nearby, believed to have been from the village of 

 Shackaconia on the banks of the Rapidan. Until their coming the 

 creek had evidently been known by the name Chyinak. If this belief 

 is correct it was the Shackaconia tribe of the Manahoac confederacy, 

 the Mahocks of Lederer, who defeated the colonists and their Pa- 

 munkey allies in one of the most important encounters between the 

 English and Indians recorded in the annals of the colonies. This 

 was the last great fight in Virginia between Siouan and Algonquian 

 tribes. 



After the defeat of the English the Mahocks may have returned 

 to the vicinity of the inouth of IVIohawk Creek. Although this is 

 thought to have been the site of the Monacan village of Massinacack 



