Editing Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania (section)

===17th century===
[[File:Plank House Marcus Hook DelCo PA.jpg|thumb|The Plank House in Marcus Hook]]
The Lenape had a major settlement in Marcus Hook; [[New Sweden]] colonists established a trading post here in the 1640s. The village was called ''Chammassungh'', or "Finland" by the Swedes. It was located on the west side of the [[Delaware River]], between Marcus Hook Creek and [[Naamans Creek]]. Dutch colonists renamed the settlement as ''"Marrites Hoeck"'' after [[New Netherland|they]] conquered the area in 1655.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.marcushookps.org/history.php|website=www.marcushookps.org|access-date=8 December 2017}}</ref>  The name is derived from the word Hook, meaning promontory, or point of land projecting into the water and Marcus, a corruption of the name of the Indian chief, called ''Maarte'' by the Dutch, who lived at the Hook.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=John Hill|title=Chester (and its Vicinity,) Delaware County, in Pennsylvania|date=1877|publisher=Wm. H. Pile & Sons|location=Philadelphia|page=67|isbn=9785871484241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Kg-AAAAYAAJ&q=albert+o.+deshong&pg=PA357|access-date=9 January 2018}}</ref>

English colonists gained control of the Dutch colonies and founded [[St. Martin's Church (Marcus Hook, PA)|St. Martin's Church]] in 1699; the new church opened for worship in 1702.  Walter Martin of [[Upper Chichester Township, Pennsylvania|Upper Chichester]] founded this church as an alternative place of worship and burial for Christian non-Quakers.<ref>{{cite web|title=St. Martins Church|url=http://www.chichesterhistory.org/|website=www.chichesterhistory.org|access-date=8 December 2017}}</ref>