Falkenberg was a linguist, fluent in the Lenape language, and was considered southern New Jersey’s foremost language interpreter involving land transactions between the Indians and the European settlers, particularly the English Quakers. This tract included the two islands of Monhunk and Minnicunk later known as Wills Island and Osborn Island. Falkenberg settled on an 800-acre tract of land that he had acquired from the Lenni Lenape Indians in 1674, and a 1697 deed re-confirmed this earlier purchase. Though he was from Holstein (now in Germany), his first wife was a Finn and part of the Swedish community. The first European to settle the township was Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg, who likely arrived by 1693 when he does not appear on a census of the Swedes along the Delaware River, where he had lived for nearly three decades. The first known account of the town was made by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen May in 1614. Tuckerton was an important port of entry and thriving 18th century seaport, established in 1699.Originally part of Burlington County, Little Egg Harbor took its name from the portion of a bay called Egg Harbor (known today as Little Egg Harbor) by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. A Friends Meeting was established in Tuckerton in 1702 in Evesham in 1688 Mt. The Tuckerton Historical Society, responsible for the 1963 reprint, was founded by brothers Edward and Mordecai Andrews. Holly is 26 miles from Philadelphia Philadelphia is directly across from Camden, New Jersey on the other side of the Delaware River. There are many unmarked graves from the 1700s, as gravestones were not part of the Quaker tradition, and the modern marker (above right) pays tribute to those buried in the cemetery in unmarked graves. The Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, on the cemetery grounds, was built in 1863, replacing an earlier meeting house which was built on 1709. The re-print of 1963 is Leah Blackman’s history of Little Egg Harbor alone, yet keeps the pagination of the 1880 surveyors association book the surveyors' section isn't in the book. The book was originally copyrighted in 1880, appearing in a report of the West Jersey Surveyors Association. In 1963, this book was re-printed/re-issued by the Great John Mathis Foundation, Tuckerton, New Jersey, to raise funds for the hundredth anniversary of the Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House.

Little egg harbor township