acres near Chester, PA. He married Catherine Boyer of New Castle County, Delaware. His son, Tobias Hendricks was born c. 1680 near the Delaware River in Chester County. Before 1718, Tobias and his brothers James and JohÃ³were the first English Quakers who became Indian traders [others were French]. The Hendricks were neither English nor Quaker but they seem to have married women who were. Tobias Hendricks, Jr. was born in 1714 on the Delaware in Chester County, PA. He became
World's Tallest Tsunami A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle loosened about 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cubic meters) of rock high above the northeastern shore of Lituya Bay.
The Guinness Book of World Records (1975) declared that Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world: âThe Natural World, Greatest Tides: The greatest tides in the world occur in the Bay of Fundy.... Burntcoat Head in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, has the greatest mean spring range with 14.5 metres (47.5 feet) and an extreme range of 16.3 metres (53.5 feet).â.