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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAMARONECK , a township of Westchester See also:

county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on See also:Long See also:Island See also:Sound, about 20 M. N.E. of New York See also:City and a See also:short distance N.E. of New Rochelle. Pop. (1890), 2385; (1900) 3849; (1905) 5655; (1910) 5602. Mamaroneck is served by the New York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway. The township includes the See also:village of Larchmont (pop. in 1910, 1958), incorporated in 1891, and See also:part of the village of Mamaroneck (pop. in 1910, including the part in See also:Rye township, 5699), incorporated in 1895. Larchmont is the headquarters of the Larchmont Yacht See also:Club. The site of Mamaroneck township was bought in 166o from the See also:Indians by See also:John Richbell, an Englishman, who obtained an See also:English patent to the See also:tract in 1668. The first See also:settlement was made by relatives of his on the site of Mamaroneck village in 1676, and the township was erected in 1788. On the 28th of See also:August 1776, near Mamaroneck, a force of See also:American militiamen under Capt. John See also:Flood attacked a See also:body of Loyalist recruits under See also:William Lounsbury, killing the latter and taking several prisoners. Soon afterwards Mamaroneck was occupied by the See also:Queen's Rangers under See also:Colonel See also:Robert See also:Rogers.

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night of the 21st of See also:October an See also:attempt of a force of Americans under Colonel John Haslet to surprise the Rangers failed, and the Americans, after a See also:hand-to-hand fight, withdrew with 36 prisoners. Mamaroneck was the See also:home of John See also:Peter DeLancey (1753—1828), a Loyalist soldier in the See also:War of See also:Independence, and was the birthplace of his son William See also:Heathcote DeLancey (1797—1865), a well-known See also:Protestant Episcopal clergyman, See also:provost of the University of See also:Pennsylvania in 1827—1832 and See also:bishop of western New York from 1839 until his See also:death. See also:James Fenimore See also:Cooper, the novelist, married (1811) a daughter of John Peter DeLancey; lived in Mamaroneck for several years, and here wrote his first novel, Precaution, and planned The See also:Spy.

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