The original settlers of New Oxford included Daniel Bondet, Oxford's first Anglican priest, and his successor, Pastor Jacques Laborie, as well as families with the surnames: Sigournais, DuTuffeau, Faneuil, Boudoin, Allen, Jansen, Bureau, Barbut, Montier, Montel, Allard, Jermon, Germon, Germain, Mousset, Cornilly, Cante, Bourdille, Cazeneau, Johonnot, Mallet, DuPont, Canton,
Machet, Papineaux, Dupeau, Grignon, Thiband, Baudrit, Boutineau and Mourgue.
When, therefore, on the spur of the festival drumming and chanting by the Ekumeku and the entire village, he slashes off the heads of his father and his brother in-law, senator Arikpo, with one stroke of the
machet each, we now know for sure that we have a rampaging revolutionary in our hands.