An Identity of the Massawomekes: Five Nations Iroquois Lawrence Van Horn The term Massawomeke seems peculiar to the literature of Captain John Smith (1612). In 1608, he came upon separate parties of Susquehannocks and Massawomekes on his trip up Chesapeake Bay (1612:53), 376). And these

. The earliest record of the use of that name that we could find is shown in Bridgen's Atlas of 1864, marking the site as Michael Trissler's "Rocky Spring." �to the safety of Donegal Township, "when the settlement was obliged to fly by the barbarous Indian war."5 There were rumors in those days of