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of land AMOS SIMMONS FOY was referring to in his letter when he wrote,
“He was the one who settled - what is termed - the French Huguenot settlement on
the Trent River, N.C.. His location was at Rocky Run two and one half or three
miles from New Bern, in that state, hard by which place I was born.” (More about
this in the next chapter.)

It also appears that a THOMAS FOY owned and operated “ an Inn” on his
property in Craven County, N.C. for there are records which state:

At the court held in New Berg for Craven County on Tuesday, 14th of May,
and 27th, year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, and in
the year of our Lord 1754, Thomas Foy moves the Court for an order to keep
an ordinary Inn on the road that leads up Trent River where John Jones
formerly kept an ordinary (Inn), which on his entering his bond with Samuel
McCubbin security, was accordingly granted.

Wednesday May 11, 1757, Thomas Foy asks the Court that he may
have consent to renue his ordinary license.

Thursday May 12, 1759, ordered that Samuel McCubbin serve as overseer
of the road from Thomas Foy’s to Trent Bridge.

In my original plan to write this book as a historical novel I was going to, at this
point, describe an Inn as it existed in the 1700s. Inns were gathering places for
people in the community and for travelers. They usually included a place where
one could spend the night, eat a meal, and where, certainly, one could buy a
drink.

It is a documented fact that on April 23, 1791 the then President of the United
States of America, GEORGE WASHINGTON, while on his Southern Tour,
stopped and had lunch at FOY’s Inn in Onslow County. This event is reported
in a biographical sketch of JAMES FOY, SR written by ROGER
KAMMERMER for The Heritage of Onslow County published in 1983 by the
Onslow County Historical Society.

C.B. FOY, in his surviving thirteen pages of FOY data, said of the Inn owned by
THOMAS FOY:

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