<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.leht.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Little Egg Harbor Township is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States . As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,065, reflecting an increase of 4,120 (+ 25.8%) from the 15,945 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,612 (+ 19.6%) from the 13,333 counted in the 1990 Census . The 2010 population was the highest recorded in any decennial census . </P> <P> 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 . The first known account of the town was made by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen May in 1614 . </P> <P> 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 . Though he was from Holstein (now in Germany), his first wife was a Finn and part of the Swedish community . Falkenberg settled on an 800 - acre tract of land that he had acquired from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans in 1674, and a 1697 deed re-confirmed this earlier purchase . This tract included the two islands of Monhunk and Minnicunk later known as Osborn Island and Wills Island . 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 . </P>

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