Woccon. A small tribe formerly
inhabiting east North Carolina, related linguistically to the Catawba,
hence of Siouan stock. All that is known of them is recorded by Lawson,
who states that about 1710 they lived 2 leagues from the
Tuscarora on the lower Neuse
in 2 villages, Yupwauremau and Tooptatmeer, having 120 warriors. In his
map of 1709, reproduced by Hawks (Hist. No. Car., is, 104, 1859), he
places them between Neuse river and one of its affluents, perhaps about
the present Goldsboro, Wayne county. They joined the Tuscarora against the
whites in the war of 1711-13, as is learned from incidental references in
colonial documents, and it is probable that they were extinguished as a
tribe by that war. The remnant may have fled north with the Tuscarora or
have joined the Catawba (Mooney,
Siouan Tribes of the East, 65, 1894). Lawson preserved a vocabulary of 150
words of their language, which shows that it was closely related to the
Catawba, although the two tribes were separated by nearly 200 miles.
