![]() Tuckerton was an important port of entry and thriving 18th century seaport, established in 1699.Rick Audet, CPRE, Director of Parks and Recreation Dena Danz, CPRP, Program Manager Cassie Hynes, CPRP, Clerk II 5045 English Creek Avenue Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234 Phone: 60 Fax: 60 Email: 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.
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