Lenape in 1674. He was probably there by 1693 when he is absent from the census taken that year of the Swedes along the Delaware River. On April 11, 1697, a deed was drafted confirming the 1674 offering by Lenape of land at Little Egg Harbor, his name being recorded in the 1697 document as "Henery Jacobs Faukinburge." On February 7, 1698/99, Falkenberg had the 800-acre tract of land surveyed, 200 acres of which encompassed the two islands of Monhunk (later Osborn's Island) and Minicunk (later Wills' Island). These islands are at the north end of Little Egg Harbor, but they have been absorbed by the mainland and today are scarcely distinguishable as islands. Leah Blackman, in her history of Little Egg Harbor Township, relates that according to tradition Falkenberg was the first white man to settle in Little Egg Harbor Township. Blackman and Heston note that once arriving in this area he dug a cave in a steep hill on the eastern side of a little stream on the portion of the tract later known as the Joseph Parker farm; the remains of the cave were still discernable as an indentation in the ground as late as 1850. (NOTE: Further research has proven that some of Blackman's information is erroneous. Geologic maps indicate that the Little Egg Harbor area was and is composed of estuarine deposites of sand, silt and clay. Would a settler dig a home in the ground as opposed to building a Native home above ground?) Falkenberg sustained himself and his family as a hunter, fowler, fisherman and oysterman. It is most likely that his first wife died prior to his move to the ocean side of the colony, but he probably brought his teenage son Henry with him. Blackman states that Falkenberg made a journey to Swedesboro, New Jersey to find a wife. Being successful, he brought his bride-to-be back to his home and prepared a large wedding, inviting his Lenape friends. They were married according to the Friends' (Quaker) tradition. This likely took place in 1697 or 1698, since the first child of this marriage was born in early 1699. Falkenberg's new wife, called Mary Jacobs (maiden name not known), became a member of the local Friends' Meeting, as did Falkenberg. Blackman writes that Mary Jacobs was a female minister of the congregation who probably spoke at the first meeting held in the new