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est ‘settlers’. Sigh, this can only mean that everyone who has ever called Rappahannock home is or was a ‘come-here’ at one time or another, but that’s an argument for another day.
Captain John Smith reported learning of the Manahoack and Monacan tribes during his exploration of the Rappahannock River to its fall line (approximately today’s Fredericksburg) in the early 1600s and these groups appear on Smith’s famous map of Virginia from that time. Several subgroups of the Manahoacks, the Hassinuga, Taxnitania, Tegninateo, and the Whonkentia were actually indicated by Smith and others to be living on the two sides of the Rappahannock near its headwaters but very little else is known about them. Smith thought these Indians to be hostile though a later German explorer, John Lederer actually visited and traded with some of these tribes and found them to be friendly (to him at least). Both the Manahoacks (Manahoacs, Mahocks) and Monacans were members of the Siouan linguistic group (linking them ancestrally with the wellknown Sioux tribes of the Great
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