went with their father to Orange County, Virginia and Bladen County (later Anson County), North Carolina. They subsequently went to Lancaster District, South Carolina. David Faulkenberry (b. c. 1746) and Robert Faulkenberry (b. c. 1755), sons of the above Jacob (b. c. 1715), went to Jackson County, Georgia. David later moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee. James Leath Fortenberry (c. 1755 - 1831) was undoubtedly a grandson of Henry Falkenberg (b. c. 1680), but by which son has not been determined. He was the founder of the family in Lawrence County, Arkansas, coming there by way of New Madrid County, Missouri Territory. Some of his descendants later settled in the Texas counties of Denton, Hunt, Wise and Cooke. Jacob Falconberry (b. 1757), the son of Isaac Faulkenberry (b. c. 1725) and grandson of Henry Falkenberg (b. c. 1680), went to Lincoln County, Kentucky and then to Jennings County, Indiana. William Jasper Fortenberry (c. 1772 - February 5, 1842), the son of John Faulkenberry (b 1740) and grandson of Jacob Faulkenberry (b. c. 1715) mentioned above, was the founder of this family in Pike County, Mississippi. Isaac Fortenberry (c. 1775 - November 1845), the son of Isaac Fortenberry (b. c. 1748) and grandson of the first mentioned John Faulkenberry (b. c. 1720), founded the Fortenberry family in Marion County, Mississippi. Israel Falkenberry (1781 - 1861), the brother of the preceding William Jasper Fortenberry, settled in Monroe County, Alabama. Joseph Fortenberry (1817 - 1856), the son of Jacob Fortenberry (1789 - 1862) and grandson of James Leath Fortenberry, above, settled in Hunt County, Texas about 1850. Oliver Rice Fortenberry (1821 - 1874), William M. Fortenberry (1827 - 1884), and A. H. Sevier Fortenberry (1828 - 1868), all brothers of the preceding Joseph Fortenberry (1817-1856), settled in Denton County, Texas between 1850 and 1869. Notable descendant U.S. President Jimmy Carter is descended from Mary Margaret Fortenberry (or Falkenborough) who married George Helms and lived in North Carolina in the mid-1700s. Mary Fortenberry was likely a daughter or granddaughter of Henry Falkenberg, oldest son of Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg. See also Colonial history of New Jersey Little Egg Harbor Township Province of New Jersey Tuckerton, New Jersey References Notes a. The predominant spelling of the name in New Jersey became Falkinburg and in the southern states became Fortenberry, with Faulkenberry being another common variation. b. Peter Jegou lived at Deer Point until 1683 and then moved