-3- *Sueceedlng years saw flourishing ^ettleaento spring up at tracadioj Itaafrage, , 3hrec MLvern, and Mel pec me,•* The f ir t eettleaeat la Cardigan was found ad during the flr^t dacada of the nineteenth century* "In the early pert of the preeeat century, the country now coapri :ed in Ifce pariah of All Selatn, was settled by nine Cntholic fa- alliae, chiefly froa Ulat In tha Weotera Highlands of eotland."' The first eettlera of tba Minion of All "«*intnt Bridge, weret ronald SeAulay, r«nsld loTlnnen, WilliPa Wilson, Kenneth BcXenaie , Ponald Caapbell , Hugh KcCoraick, Alexander KeHonald (Lord), and Angus -MeToneld (Carpenter), Aaong the early settlers ware two heads of fsallies naaad McPonald , who as that patro¬ nymic was net imnoaaoiH ware given "nick- naaao" far distinction* One of the^-e aaa was oalled Alexander ■ePoaald -lord- the other Angus McDonald -Carpantar- he being a carpenter by trade, walla the former, a aaa of singular personal beauty and good address, was dabbed An Mar Mhaor . the word dude being than unknown... Cardigan was naaad after Ooorga Brudnell, fourth Earl of Cardigan , In 1765t "ho was later created Puke of Montague (1766)• The Indian aaa* given to Cardlgaa was 4. WncMillan. J.C ., ffia«|rlr j&BjftfT ftf ^ £flftg»fi CTpmn In Trtncft BBnrt XrlnnO* voia., p»3« 5. 1 "Ion «* All ^alafa. a aanuscript at the %X>. U . library, 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid.