MURRAY HARBOUR DISTRICT The first settlers were unknown to me, however, in the year of 1806, a group of people came here from the Isle of Guernsey and found an abandoned house on Beach Point , and lived there, then moved to Machon's Point (as we knew it). They were the Machons, , Brehauts and the Roberts families. Brehauts and some Machon settled on Machon's Point , and their only neighbors were William Sencabaugh , his wife and seven sons, who had come here from the State of New York . Two other neighbours, Nico¬ las Hugh and James Irving lived on this side of the Point . The Roberts settled in Murray Harbour and the in Guernsey Cove . Henry Brehaut lived next to the Sencabaugh farm with his wife and six children. The eldest, Henry the second, was then thirteen years of age, three more children were born to them, Margaret, Joseph and Charlotte. At Murray Harbour North , there was a Mrs. Creed , and a family by the name of Graham. There were neither schools, churches, stores nor a post office. We had no doctor nor minister at that time. About the year 1834 the first post office was established at Thomas Bells , White Sands . A Dr. Kaye came later to Georgetown . THE SENCABAUGH FAMILY William Sencabaugh had seven sons, namely William, John, Jacob, James, Henry, David and Benjamin. John, David and Jacob settled at Gas- pereaux, next district to Murray Harbour North . John married a Mary Graham , and had three children, Ellen, Thomas, John. William Senca ¬ baugh the second, married and settled at Guernsey Cove . They had one son Henry, and a daughter Rhuhamah, later, several other daughters, who settled elsewhere. James married Charlotte Brehaut and stayed on his father's farm. Their children were Henry, John, James, Benjamin and a daughter who married Creighton. When grown, they all left home except Benjamin. Benjamin first married a LeLacheur girl and lived on part of his father's farm, in the western sector. They had a family of all girls. Henry married Margaret Brehaut , settled on the road leading from Murray Harbour to White Sands . Other settlers began to arrive. William Herring and his three sons and two daughters came from England and settled on the first Island. A Mr. Penny and his wife also came from England . They had two sons, and settled on Penny's Point , which is a point of land approximately one mile west from Beach Point . Hugh MacDonald 's family had the farm west of Penny's. Captain George Irving had a farm east of the Penny's from the Beach Point shore out to Guernsey Cove shore. Another Irving family