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From: Trish Worthington Cobb <>
Subject: Re: White's Ferry
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:20:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: <v03130300b6e15d42f2de@[128.155.5.79]>

from Powells NC Gazetteer:

Rockyhock ‹ community in central Chowan County. See Rockyhock Creek.

Rockyhock Creek ‹ rises in central Chowan Co. and flows SW into Chowan
River. Appears as Rakahak on Ogilby map, 1671, and Rockyhock on the Mosely
map, 1733. Name may be derived from an Indian village, Ricahokene, on the e
side of Perquimans River at Albemarle Sound. It may have meant "where combs
[rakes] are made."

Trish

on 3/23/01 3:08 PM, Grace A. Gleason at wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> On the Moseley Map there is a place on the Chowan River, near Rockahock
> (sic) that is called White's Ferry. Does anyone know "exactly" where that
> was and if any signs of it still exist?
>
> grace
>
>
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