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

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best historians of New Netherlands, A.D., 1625. 0 This people he describes " as dwelling along the coast from Nonvalk to twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hellegat." Adriaen van der Donck, in his map of 1656, styles them Siwanoys. These Siwanoys constituted a tribe of the mighty Mohegan, or " Enchanted Wolf " nation, originally called Muhhekanew, or the Seven Tribes on the sea coast -- otherwise called Mohiggans by the English, and Mahicanders, or River Indians, by the low Dutch,6 and Mohicans by the English.