I stumbled upon this mention buried in a 1995 interview with a man from Cape Fear, NC, named Kenneth Sprunt. (I could not tell why the interview was done or posted online.) "Well going back to my grandparents, my grandfather was the son of Alexander Sprunt who was one of two brothers who came to this country back in the early- to mid-1800s, their having two boys, Alexander, my great-grandfather, and his brother, James Mensey Sprunt. They went down to Barbados and they invested their little bit of money in real estate. At that time, almost coincidentally, the British government freed the slaves and . . . these boys were really wiped out. Alexander went on back to Scotland where they came from, and James Mensey asked about to find out where a good place to make a living was. They said Boston, Massachusetts. So he got on a packet to Boston and it broke down at Cape Fear, North Carolina, so he put in to Wilmington. Didn’t have but very little money and he hired himself out as a tutor. In the meantime he established himself and he wrote his brother in Scotland and got him to come over to Wilmington and that’s how we sort of got here. That was back in the mid-1800s." Seems that some people were just in the Caribbean briefly, and often, nobody has any clue what happened to them. Serendipity rules! Hope someone can connect. Best, Laura Alderson