• About Mahockney
    • A Historical Timeline
    • About the Name
  • Art and Architecture
    • Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation
      • English Basement North
      • English Basement South
    • Mahockney’s John Tyler Portrait
      • Artist King and Subject Tyler
      • A Comparison of Charles Bird King’s Work 
      • Identifying the Mahockney portrait’s subject as John Tyler, 10th President of the United States
    • The Bricks of Mahockney
  • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane & Patrick Henry
  • The Grounds
    • Sights along the Underwood Trail
  • Who Lived Here
    • The Civil War Era

Mahockney

~ America's Story Told Through the History of One of its Oldest Houses

Category Archives: Indians

Mahockney is an Indian word…

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From the 1612 “Strachey’s Dictionary of Powhatan,” the predominant language of the tribes of the Powhatan Nation, including the Rappahannock …

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John Smith attacked by the Rappahannocks. Why? Amoroleck knows…

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From the excellent National Park Service 2005 reconsideration of Indian-English Contacts in the Seventeenth Century (http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/jame1/moretti-langholtz/contents.htm), with Native American commentary: …

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Colonial National Historical Park: A Study of Virginia Indians and Jamestown-The First Century (Chapter 7)

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From the National Park Service’s reexamination of Anglo-Indian encounters in the Seventeenth Century, a look at the very first and …

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Sesquarcentennial

2023 marks the 360th anniversary of the original royal patent granting the right to settle Mahockney-
Happy Birthday, Mahockney!

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