Jacob Walley, 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 Sillick, by means of which the people are greatly exposed, and put in much damages of taking the small pox.'^ " -

^ County Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. B. 70. b Co. Rec Rel. Soc. Lib. A. 186.

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MAMARONECK.

Mamaroneck is situated seven miles south of the village of White Plains, distant twenty miles northeast of New York, and about one hundred and forty-two south of Albany ; --

St. Thomas's Church, Mamaroneck. boUUdcd nOrth bv

Scarsdale, east by Harrison and Rye, south by Long Island Sound, and west by New Rochelle. Its length, north and south, is three miles, and its medial width two and a quarter.a The etymology of the name of this place (at different periods spelt Mammarinikes, Mornoronack, Mamarinck, Merinak, and Momoronuck) doubtless refers, like most other Indian words, to some object peculiar to its geographical locality. The last syllable, " neck," or " uck" (uc,) being the ordinary inflection for locality, and one of the striking characteristics of Mohegan names east of the Hudson. By some the word is supposed to indicate " the place of rolling stones,^^ (boulders,) which abound in the romantic environs of Mamaroneck.^