History of Little Egg Harbor Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
Subtitle: from its first settlement to the present time, comprising the genealogy of many of its inhabitants, together with short biographies of eniment characters, and most events worthy of remembrance
By: Leah Blackman.
Publisher: Great John Mathis Foundation
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Tuckerton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Genealogy.; Little Egg Harbor (N.J. : Township) -- History.; Burlington County (N.J.) -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy.
Description: 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.  The book was originally copyrighted in 1880, appearing in a report of the West Jersey Surveyors Association.  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 Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, on the cemetery grounds, was built in 1863, replacing an earlier meeting house which was built on 1709.  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.  Little Egg Harbor is 43 miles from Mt. Holly, Evesham is 10 miles from Mt. Holly, Mt. Holly is 26 miles from Philadelphia; Philadelphia is directly across from Camden, New Jersey on the other side of the Delaware River.

The Tuckerton Historical Society, responsible for the 1963 reprint, was founded by brothers Edward and Mordecai Andrews.   A Friends Meeting was established in Tuckerton in 1702; in Evesham in 1688; Mt. Holly was established in 1677.  Tuckerton was an important port of entry and thriving 18th century seaport, established in 1699.
Notes: RNJ 101,728