Manonoakin Indian Town
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The village of the Manonoakin Indians, a subtribe of the Pocomoke Nation, was located two miles southwest of here in Indian Neck. The Manonoakin Indians traded with John Westlock, trader and patentee, as early as 1620 at a fork of the Manokin River and trading branch called trading point. Trading point was a place where fur traders and colonists exchanged goods with the Indigenous People.
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