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Tinicum was organized in 1738

 Lower Tinicum, rebuilt A.D. 1908 Church Yard, SWOPE Tinicum is bounded by the Delaware river and Nockamixon on the north, the Delaware on the east, the Tohickon which separates it from Plumstead and Bedminster, on the south, and by Nockamixon on the west. The area is seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-seven acres.

Lower Tinicum, rebuilt A.D. 1908 , Peter W. Beeler, Samuel A. Snyder, Isaac R. Lear, George W. Lerch

The London Company was among the very earliest land-owners in the township as well as the largest, and the purchase was probably made about the time the company bought part of manor of Highlands in 1699. The stream of immigration that planted the Scotch-Irish on the banks of the Deep run, in Bedminster, carried settlers of the same race across the Tohickon, into the then wilderness of Tinicum, in the first quarter of the last century.

Church Yard on Brick Church Road down behind Lower Tinicum

Settled there in 1730 were: William, Edward and Moses Marshall, Moses and Joseph Collins, Joseph Haverford, Richard Thatcher, David Griffee, Richard Minturn, James Ross, John Hall, James Willey, not one of whom was German.

 

Signers of the petition to organize: William, Edward and Moses Marshall, Moses, Joseph and Jonathan Collins, Joseph Haverford, Richard Thatcher, David Griffee, Richard Minturn, James Ross, John Hall, James Willey, James Stewart, Joseph M. King, Michael Williamson, William Rickey, John McKee, John Peterson, James Briggs, James Campbell, John Stewart, James Johnston, John Shaw, William Hill and Joseph McFarland.

There are four churches in the township, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Reformed, Christian, and Baptist. The Tinicum Presbyterian church is the oldest of that denomination north of Deep Run. At what time it was organized we do not know, but in the summer of 1739 the Reverend James Campbell preached there and at Newtown. Upper Tinicum Union Cemetery

Lutheranism in Bucks County, 1734-1934 by Allen S. Fisher, Pastor 1935
In the oldest Tinicum Record (7) there is an entry concerning the restored Hillpot Graveyard which is of interest. It is as follows: "In the Year of our Lord, 1802, there was bought of George Maust the old burying ground for £3 by William Kealer and Frederick Hillpot, Trustees chosen by the congregation, and at the same time the title was lodged in the hands of Frederick Hillpot." The names of those who contributed toward the purchase of the same 01' toward the cost of fencing it were also given as follows: "Frederick Hillpot, William Kealer, George Snyder, Barney Hillpot, John Swope, Jacob George, John Hillpot, George Kealer, Henry Hillpot, Peter Barnet, Daniel Snyder, Frederick George, Philip Groover, Peter Snyder, George Hillpot, Nicholas Wyker, George Fox, Nicholas Strouse, Michael Lamberd, Henry Determer, Elizabeth Long, Madeline Swope, John Bergstresser and John Snyder." In looking over the deeds now in the hands of Rudolph Segletes, the present owner of the former George Maust (Mast) tract, the writer found the above purchase of the Graveyard verified, being recorded in the Court House at Doylestown (8). One wonders why it was called "the old" graveyard in 1802. A cornerstone found outside the dilapidated stone wall, removed when the Yard was cleared in 1927, bears the following inscription: "Trustees 1828; Henry Hillpot, John Fox, Arnold Leer and Emmanuel Worman.

Tinicum continued to be the home of a remnant of the Delaware Tribe of Indians for upwards of twenty-five years after it was surveyed.  

bullet BUNKER HILL
bullet POINT PLEASANT-1826
The two settlements of Lower Black Eddy and Tohickon Creek became the single village Tinicum Post Office, Point Pleasant The Inn 
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TINICUM CREEK

bullet LOWER BLACK EDDY-1821
bullet THE DOAN'S
bullet Upper Tinicum Union Cemetery
bullet  Burials at Upper Tinicum Union Church
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Davis' History of Tinicum

THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXXI, TINICUM, 1738
from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M.,
1876 and 1905* editions

CHAPTER XXXI - CHAPTER I (Vol II), 1905 ed.  TINICUM  1738

Tinicum is bounded by the Delaware river and Nockamixon on the north, the Delaware on the west, the Tohickon, (1) which separates it from Plumstead and Bedminster, on the south, and by Nockamixon on the west. The area is 17,177 acres.

(1) From Tohickhan, or Tohickhanne, signifying the drift-wood, 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 the land to the north of it had been taken from then fraudulently. On all the old records we have examined, it is spelled Tohickney.

bullet Ottsville
bullet Hillpot Graveyard: Tinicum, Bucks County
bullet Burials at Lower Tinicum Church
RED HILL
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bullet Bucks village owns extensive history
  Red Hill Church and School

  Red Hill Reformed Church 1845-1888

Parents: Robert and Lucian Vanluvanee, Child > Benjamin born: March 6, 1848; Baptized June 4, 1848 Sponsors: W. Welder and Leah.

 

Bunker Hill was a half dozen houses in Clay Ridge School District of Tinicum Township, in the mid-western part of the township near the line between Tinicum and Nockamixon Townships. It lies near Beaver Falls on Beaver Creek. The name is probably from the Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. There is an old private graveyard east of Clay Ridge Road.

The Point Pleasant Inn was first licensed in 1792 to John Van Fossen.

DOAN BROTHERS: Moses Levi, Aaron, Joseph, Mahlon and their cousin Abraham. Early 1700's. The British disaster inspired them with a spirit and recklessness. Horses and tax monies disappeared. In August 1783, Moses was shot and Abe and Levi were hanged and buried in Gardenville. Joseph & Aaron fled safely to Canada.

Upper Tinicum Upper Tinicum Union Cemetery.Coming South on Route 32 (River Road) through Kintnersville, 1 mile south of the bridge to Milford NJ, turn right (west) on Jugtown Hill Road for approx. 1/2 mile to Upper Tinicum Church Road, turn left. - the church is on the Left.

Tohickon Creek

Tohickon Creek is the second largest stream in the county, inferior only to the Neshaminy. For many years it has been noted for its large mill dams and important grist mills. ... Tohickon is an Indian place name, changed only slightly from the Indian word To-hick-han or To-hick-hanne. Heckewelder interprets this word to mean 'the stream over which we pass by means of a bridge of drift-wood," but more recent students of the Indian tongue take exception to this definition and say it means 'deer-bone creek.3

TINICUM Christ Lutheran Church

Christ Lutheran Church will marks its 250th anniversary .
Even before the United States was one nation, Christ Lutheran Church was a congregation of German immigrant farm families,
meeting in a log church in Tinicum to celebrate its faith, according to church history.
With its roots reaching back to the 18th century, the Dark Hollow Road church will mark its 250th anniversary.
Names like Trauger, Swope and Gruver are etched in the glistening stained glass of the church's 102-year-old sanctuary...

Freda R. Savana can be reached at 215-345-3061 or fsavana@phillyBurbs.com

October 29, 2010 http://www.phillyburbs.com

 

Habonim Dror Camp Galil is a Habonim Dror North America summer camp for Jewish students in northern Ottsville, Pennsylvania, United States, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia. It runs for seven weeks during the summer and hosts several seminars during the year.
 

Church: Birth and Baptismal Records Tinicum Reform Church (partial list): Bucks County, PA

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/church/tiniref0001.txt

 

Page last updated: June 6, 2023

 
A Timeline of Bucks County History - Mercer Museum PDF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) 2nd Inaugural

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. 

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