Rockwell, Sensor; Nathaniel Wiatt, Sessor; David Webster, Servicer; Nathaniel Wiat t, Servuer ; Jacob Wallet, Servuer.
"At a town meeting in Salem, 10th day of January, 1763, Resolved that the welfare of the town was endangered by one Dr. Michael Abbott, of Ridgefield, in the colony of Connecticut, who had lately come into the town with sundry other persons and had inoculated with the small-pox one Gershom Sellick, by means of which the people are greatly exposed, and put in much damages of taking the small-pox."
THE TOWN
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.0
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.