Dinidock, Tinicum, or Tineconk

44 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY 6.doIndiana do30,000 do 7-doMaryland, otherwise Baltimore Yearly Meeting, contains twelve meetings and about562 do 8. The Yearly Meeting of North and South Carolina about4,500 do N. B. There are about 800 Friends in the new state of Michigan, who belong to the Yearly Meeting of New York, though 1000 miles distant. Of late years some Friends have settled beyond the Mississippi in the district of Iowa, where they amounted, some time ago, to no families; these belong to Indiana Yearly Meeting. The number of Hicksites in the United States, is thought to be about 23,000. DINIDOCK, TINICUM, OR TINECONK. In the Bi-cent. edition of George Fox's Journal (1891) and in the reprint (1901), it is stated (vol. 2, p. 177) that George Fox on his way from New York to the South crossed the Delaware at " Upper Tinicum Island." In all previous editions the island is called " Upper Dinidock." No island answers to either name. The context in the Journal, and geographical conditions, alike make Tinicum near Chester, Pa., impossible. Benj. Ferris, in his " Original Settlements on the Delaware " (Wilmington, 1846), gives what seems to be the true solution. He says, " The name of the island was called Matineconk or Tiniconk, which G. Fox, by a slight mistake, understood to be Dinidock. It was called Upper Tineconk, to distinguish it from the island on which Burlington stands, then called Lower Tineconk" (p. 131, note). The island was on the regular trail from New York to the South. Curiously enough Dankers and Sluyter in their Journal, 1679, note that Matineconk and Tinicum were confused in their day. (Mem. Long Island Hist. Soe, vol. 1, pp. 175, 177, 178.) Additional light is thrown on the matter elsewhere. Hazard's Annals of Pennsylvania, 1850, pp. 390, 391, 396, 461 ; Mem. Hist. Soe. of Pa., vol. 7, p. 140 ; H. A. Brown, " The Settlement of Burlington ," 1878, pp. 41-43. ...