Ulster Scots (Irish)
After the exodus of the Acadians from Noel (1750), the land was owned but never settled by Charles Morris (jurist). Twenty one years after Noel was vacanted by the Acadians, the village was settled by Ulster Scots people Timothy O'Brien and his four sons (1771).
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