It is attested only in a vocabulary of 143 words, printed in a 1709 compilation by English colonist John Lawson of Carolina.

[2] The Woccon people that Lawson encountered have been considered by scholars to have been a late subdivision of the Waccamaw.

[1] The Woccon are believed to have been decimated as a people during the Tuscarora War in the Carolinas with English colonists in 1713.

Most of the Tuscarora migrated north to New York, settling with the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy by 1722 and being accepted as the sixth.

Some descendants of partial Woccon ancestry survive in the Southeast as well as Canada, where the Six Nations of the Iroquois migrated after the American Revolutionary War.