At 6:24 PM -0700 4/29/01, Linda Emerson wrote: >OK... next question for all of you... > >According to the USGS Mapping site, Hickon Creek is a variant name of >Tohickon Creek in Lumberville (I think that's where it is). Is there >local history of the name Hickon? ....(You can see where my >sleuthing is going, right?) Linda, According to "PLACE NAMES IN BUCKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA" compiled by George Mac Reynolds (Doylestown, PA: Bucks Co. Historical Society, 1942), page 403: "... 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." On Geologial Survey maps the part of this stream from east of Quakertown to its source is marked 'Hickon' but this may be a misprint or a slip of the draughtsman's pen." According to my maps, the Tohickon Creek enters the Delaware River less than two miles north of Lumberville. MacReynolds has no separate listing for Hickon, and neither the Battle nor the Davis histories of Bucks County indexes Hickon as a Bucks County surname. I can add nothing to this from personal knowledge, but perhaps others can. By the way, I would be interested in anything you learn about pursuing records from the Neshaminy Presbyterian Church. I have close collaterals who married there .... Ruth Satterthwaite <satterth@meer.net>