Mobjack Bay is a bay on the western shore of

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in the

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. It lies between the

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on the north and the York River on the south. The bay appears in early documents as "Mockjack Bay"; it was said that echoes on the bay would mock "Jack", a term for a sailor. Captain Thomas Todd of Toddsbury, Gloucester County, a mid seventeenth century emigrant, was recorded as "Thomas Todd of Mockjack Bay". The

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USS ''Mobjack'' (AGP-7) was named for Mobjack Bay.

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: Bays of Virginia Bodies of water of Gloucester County, Virginia Bodies of water of Mathews County, Virginia {{MathewsCountyVA-geo-stub