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Mamaroneck is situated on the Sound, seven miles south of the county 

 seat, White Plains, distant twenty miles north-east of New York, and 

 about one hundred and forty-two south of Albany. It is bounded north 

 by Scarsdale, east by Harrison and Rye, south by the "Manunketsuck" 

 or "Broad Flowing River" of the Indians commonly called Long 

 Island Sound, and west by New Rochelle. Its length, north and south, 

 is three miles, and its medium width east and west, two and a quarter." 



The etymology of the name of this place (at different periods spelt 

 Mammarinikes, Mamoronack, Mamarinek, Merrinack, Merinak, and 

 Mamaronuck) doubtless refers, like most Indian words, to some object 

 peculiar to its geographical locality. The last syllable, " eck," or " uck" 

 (uc), being, the ordinary inflection for locality, and one of the striking 

 characteristics of Mohegan names, east of the " Statauc" or North River. 

 Mamaroneck signifies " the place where the fresh water falls into the 

 salt," from the Mamaroneck river, a fresh water stream which divides 

 this town from Rye Neck, originally falling over a ridge of rock directly 

 into the salt water of Mamaroneck harbor. This ridge, now removed, 

 was a little above the present bridge and near where the old Boston 

 road crossed the stream. 



The original name of De Lancey's Neck, the peninsula which forms 

 the south-east portion of the town, " Wanmainuck ; " and that of the 

 adjoining neck or peninsula, on the west, formerly belonging to Peter 

 Jay Munro, was " Mangopson." Mamaroneck at the time of the Dutch 

 discovery appears to have been inhabited by one of the numerous sea 

 coast tribes termed Suwanoes, or Sewanoos, by John De Laet, one of the 

 a New York Gazetter. 

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