This is part 7 of a series identifying the individuals in the above photograph. Henry Sims Brumfield Sr. is identified in the above picture as the seated Caucasian man on the left. He has been identified as the former slave owner of Richard Brumfield in a newspaper article dated February 22, 1935. The ancestors and family of Henry Sims Brumfield Sr. have been chronicled by many of his descendants in detail which dates include the 1700s in the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina. They later also migrated to the future states of Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Mississippi Territory was a land area that included present-day states of Mississippi and Louisiana. Spain had previously abandoned its' previous claim to this land in 1795. The state of Georgia also relinquished its claim after a major land scandal ( the Yazoo land scandal) perpetrated by the governor of Georgia in 1802. The Territory of Mississippi was occupied at that time by the Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Pascagoula, Chocchuma, Tunica, Yazoo and other indigenous groups. On April 7,1798, the United States Congress organized the Territory of Mississippi and it was opened for settlement.
With the patent of the cotton gin in 1794 and fertile farmland in the Mississippi Territory, there was a great migration to this area. This migration pattern is now known as The Great Mississippi Migration of 1798 to 1819. This land area offered better agricultural and economic opportunities for those who lived in the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia.
The ancestors of Henry S. Brumfield were part of this migration. They resided in South Carolina in the late 1700s. "On November 11, 1811 a passport was issued by the governor of Georgia to John Brumfield (Henry S. grandfather) with his wife 11 children and 3 Negroes from York District South Carolina to travel through to the Indian Nation to the Western Country. " *The John Brumfield family and adult children established settlements in Saint Tammany (later Washington) Parish, Louisiana and Pike County, Mississippi.
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. The western area of the Mississippi Territory on December 10, 1817 became the state of Mississippi. The family of Henry Sims Brumfield Sr. was well established in Pike County, Mississippi and Washington Parish, Louisiana.
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Excellent article. Lots of good historical information in bite size chunks that are both coherent and relevant in the telling of the story.
Excellent article. The information was provided in bite size chunks that were relevant to the narrative and coherent in terms of how the story flowed. Really excited about the next installment.
Hi! My Brumfield or Bromfield is Major Brumfield of Virginia. Is his family line in your 'Fields of broom: John Brumfield and Margaret Kelly, their ancestors & descendants: with added reference correspondence and notes concerning other groups' ? If so, where can I find a copy? Thank you. Susan Dickey
HI! Henry Sims Brumfield is my 3x great grandfather! I am working with Vandilyn Brock Lewis who is a descendant of Liddie Brumfield Caston and Calvin Caston. We match on Ancestry at 103cMs across 5 segments and I am wanting to add this to my tree. I had already saved this picture to my tree, but had no idea how the Caston family came in to play until some of this. Thank you so much for posting the information you have so far! Did Liddie have a child with Henry Sims Brumfield, or possibly one of his brothers? Or could she be a half sister to him and be the child of Jesse Kelly Brumfield? I have built a "floating tree" for the Caston connection until I / we all can figure the connection out. Hoping to link the floating tree to my tree one of these days! I feel like this is above my level, and so lost, so I am so completely thankful that there are people like you who are much more competent and able to figure this out!
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