Mattituck is believed to have derived its name from the Algonquian name for "Great Creek". Mattituck Creek has been dredged and is used extensively by pleasure craft on the Long Island Sound (the Mattituck Inlet is the entrance into Mattituck Creek, and the whole waterway is now popularly referred to as Mattituck Inlet).
It is only one of two harbors (the other being Mt. Sinai harbor) on the north side of Long Island on the Sound east of Port Jefferson.
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It was on the 29th day of August, 1853, at 3 P. M., that the people of Mattituck and Jamesport met in their respective houses of worship and enacted the dissolution of Union Parish and the incorporation of two distinct societies. The Certificate of Incorporation of Mattituck Society was recorded Sept. 6th, 1853, in the County Clerk’s office, in Liber A of Certificates of Religious Incorporations, p. 128. At the meeting of the Presbytery
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miles, it will be seen that it is a difficult matter to locate precisely the lands mentioned in the old records and conveyances, requiring much careful study. Gradually the name Mattituck reasserted itself and a lot of land would be occasionally described as lying in the parish or village of Mattituck, but this did not become a common practice until recent times. The new deeds usually repeated the descriptions of the old and as late as fifty years ago Mat-
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