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wherein he is both the grantee and the grantor of real property.

100 acres granted July 10, 1788
100 acres granted Dec. 20, 1791
100 acres granted Dec. 20, 1791
60 acres granted Dec. 18, 1794
150 acres granted July 10, 1788
200 acres granted July 10, 1788
200 acres granted Dec. 20, 1791

The 1790 Federal Census lists FREDERICK FOYE as the head of a family in
Newbern District, Craven County, North Carolina consisting of two males over
sixteen years of age, two males under sixteen years of age, one female and
twenty nine slaves.

FREDERICK FOY SR was named as one of the executors of his brother,

JACOB FOY’s, will.

In the 1815 March term of the Craven County Court FREDERICK FOY was
one of the jurors. FREDERICK FOY SR and DAVID HATCH were appointed
during the 1815 June term of the Craven County Court to divide the personal
estate of RICHARD KINSEY.

In the chronology of some of the researchers there is some confusion regarding
one of the two wives of FREDERICK FOY SR. One researcher claims “The
husband of Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick Foy Sr has the same mother as had
Frederick Foy Jr., and he (husband of Elizabeth) of course could not have married
her if she also had the same mother.”

Another researcher says when talking about Elizabeth, “This Elizabeth is the
daughter of Frederick Foy Sr who married the son of Elizabeth Simmons Foy

Mumford, who was the widow of Jacob Foy and had married Mumford, then had
a son named Edward Mumford.”

I will have to confess that such divination of relationships is beyond my abilities
to understand at times. All I can do is pass on the information and let you, the
reader, decide what it means. But, at least, you see that genealogy is not an exact

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