HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XXXI.
 

TINICUM.
 

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Boundaries.—Indian township.—London company.—The Marshalls.—Joseph ijavci-
ford.—jNIatthew Hughes.—Adam Meisner.—Casper Kolb.—John Praul.—A
settler at Point Pleasant.—Hessians settled in Tinicum.—Settlers petition for
township.—Boundaries.—Allowed by court.—Original settlers English and
Scotch-Irish.—Early roads.—Germans.—The AVilliamses.—Bridge over To¬
hickon.—Arthur Erwin.—His death.—Josc[)h Smith and Smithtown.—Coal first
burned in smith-shops.—Charles Smith.—Edmund Kinsey.—Character of Joseph
Smith.—Sniithtown destroyed.—The Tinicum islands.—MarshalFs rifle.—The
homestead.—Tinicum Presbyterian church.—Brick church.—Baptist church.—
Point Pleasant, Erwinna, Head-Quarters, and Ottsville,—Fisheries.—Early
taverns.—Area of township.—Population.
 

Tinicum is bounded by the Delaware river and Nocdvamixon on
the north, the Delaware on the east, the Tohickon.i wdiich separates
it from Plumstead and Bedminster, on the south, and by Nocka¬
mixon on the west. The area is seventeen thousand one hundred
and seventv-seven acres.
 

1 From Tohickhan, or Tohickhanne, signifying the drift-icood stream, i. e. the stream
•we cross on drift-wood. Teedyuscung, the great Delaware king, frequently declared
the Tohickon to be the northern limit of the white man's country, and that lands to
the north of it had been taken from them fraudulently. On all the old records we
have examined, it is spelled Tohickney.