Alexander Henderson and Catherine Taylor and their 8 children arrived in Northumberland County NB in 1776 from Morayshire, Scotland. they were the first immigrants of Anglo Saxon origin to settle east of Davidson and Cort's grant.
 
“Alexander Henderson referred to above, said he was the first settler on His Majesty’ Land below the Grant of Davidson and Cort.  He had lived at Morefield since 1776, been qualified by Captain Boyle in 1777.  He said feelingly that he had lived there ‘during the late commotions’ (American Revolution), had undergone the greatest hardship and oppression, being often robbed and spoiled of all he had, and daily threatened being ‘sacraficed by the Barbarous Ingeons’ … A later Memorial of 11 ‘Old Settlers’ asked that there rights to Canadian Marsh be confirmed.  The 11 included most of the above, as well as William Atkinson and John Mark Delesdernier.  They said they had occupied these lands since 1777.  Canadian Marsh, opposite the lower end of Newcastle, had been divided into 11 lots, so that each settler could have some marsh hay for his cattle – a serious matter in our heavily forested country.”