Between 1609 and 1616, Dutch captains Hudson, May, and Hendricksen explored the coast and called this area "Eyre Haven" (Egg Harbor), reflecting its prolific bird population. The English took control of New Netherland from the Dutch in 1664 and, in 1676, divided Nova Caesarea (New Jersey) into East and West Jersey Provinces, with the boundary line beginning at Little Egg Harbor. The first European purchase of Lenape land in what is now Ocean County took place at Little Egg Harbor when Henry Jacobs Falkinburg bought it in 1674. By 1698, Falkinburg, Edward and Mordecai Andrews, and others had founded the county's first settlement, centered at today's Tuckerton. Most early settlers were Quakers, who established the Egg Harbor Friends Meeting in 1702, built their first Meeting House in 1709 as the county's first church, and are interred in its graveyard. A portion of the nearby Andrews Homestead is said to be the oldest standing structure in Ocean County. Little Egg Harbor grew from farming, fur trading, fishing, and whaling to include gristmills, sawmills, shipbuilding, salt production, and significant commercial trade, especially in lumber and shellfish, with major American cities and abroad.