June 5, 1676: Rebel Nathaniel Bacon orders up a Northern Force, including Rappahannock County men (the site of Mahockney).
And it is further enacted by the same authority, that the number of one thousand men wherof the one eighth part to be horsemen and dragoones bee forthwith raised in order to the prosecuting this Indian warr, and drawne forth out of these respective counties hereafter named, vizt, thirty one men out of Henrico countie,…one hundred and fforty men out of Gloucester countie, sixy three men out of Rappahannack county, …
Source: William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, from the first session of the legislature, in the year 1619. Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eight. : Volume I[-XIII]. Printed for the editor, by R & W & G Barlow, 1819.