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WHO WERE THE FIRST AMERICAN FOYs ?

oncerning who was the first FOY of our group to come to the New World,
my previous effort at writing a historical novel about the FOYs, i.e.
CVolume One of FOYs WHO CAME TO TEXAS, began its history in the
year 1611 in France where ADAM de-la FOYE had just been knighted by the
King of France as a political favor. He was thereafter known as SIR FOYE. This
part of the story is true. There was a man named FOYE who was knighted in
France in 1611 but there is nothing to suggest this individual was an ancestor to
the FOYs who came to the new world.

The text fictionally then portrayed ADAM de-la-FOYE as one of the leaders of
the Huguenots, a Protestant religious group who were at war with the Catholics,
who were then politically and religiously in control of France.

The story continued to relate the history of the persecution suffered by the

Huguenots in France. The historical facts in that story were true and can be
studied in any world or French history book. That history is a chronicle of
horrible and shameful acts by men upon other men, all in the name of religion.

As a result of the continuous wars between the Protestants and the Catholics,
thousands of Huguenots fled France to different parts of the world, including
England and the New World.

WAS FRANCIS FOY OUR FIRST NEW WORLD FOY?

Volume One fictionally related that ADAM de-la FOYE had a son named
FRANCIS who, during the persecutions, fled to Yorkshire, England and there

established a shipping firm which later did business with entities in the New
World. Becoming very successful in the shipping business and having made
investments with others in the New World FRANCIS and his wife, SERINA
MILES, decided to move from Yorkshire, England to the Baltimore, Maryland
area in America.

All the historical facts discussed in that fictionalized volume were accurate but

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