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Phil,
This is very informative. I trace back directly to the John Brumfield you mention, through my grandfather, Charles. This part of the family moved into the Belzoni/Yazoo City area of Mississippi in the early 1800s or the late 1700s. There they had a cotton plantation, listed in the census as "Planter" about 1850.
My ggggrandfather fought in the Battle of New Orleans with four brothers and one first cousin as part of the Louisiana Militia, De Clouet's Regiment. My ggggrandfather was 16, and one of his brothers was just 14. They all survived.
We visited Jamestown in 2007 and saw that the skeleton of either James Brumfield or one of the other three "boyes" is in a display in the field museum. The display was titled "Who Shot JR?" -- JR was part of the ID given to each of the findings. The researchers were able to determine through isotopic analysis that the bones were of a person who had lived as a child in the part of England near Alford, where a certain variety of corn was grown.
James was eight when he left England, apparently under the care of Captain Smith himself, both from Alford, Lancashire County. (I have no specific evidence of that Smith-Brumfield connection, but James came without his parents.)
Your comments and insights are MUCH appreciated!
-- Hunter Brumfield, Tokyo
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