History of Presbyterianism CHAPTER III. NEW LONDON AND CAVENDISH . Cavendish is one of the oldest settlements in the province. Its first settlers came from Moroyshire, Scotland , about the year 1774. For about twenty- two years these early settlers were without regular gospel ordinances; but they had not forgotten the early religious training they had received in the pious homes of their youth. The greater part of them regularly observed the worship of God in their families, and they, as well as the people of Malpeque and Bedeque , carried their little children all the way to Charlottetown that they might receive baptism at the hands of that beloved servant of God , the late parson Des Brisay of the Episcopal church. He had been brought up a Presbyterian and he baptized their children according to the Presbyterian form. He was a liberal-minded Christian and generously gave the use of his church to Presbyterian ministers and even invited them to preach for him, he going through the Church of England service. The first Presbyterian minister who visited and preached in Cavendish was the late Rev. James Mc ¬ Gregor , D. D. On Wednesday, July 16, 1806, the doctor preached in the house of Mr. Simpson , grandfather of Rev. Allan Simpson , late of church, Halifax . His text was Ezek. xxxvi: 31. On the following day he preached two dis- 20