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So, FRANKLIN had his theory that the first FOY to America was JOHN FOY.

CLAUDIUS B. FOY, however, had a different theory. Although he had copies
of FRANKLIN FOY’s work and the work of others, his theory was it was not
JOHN FOY who first came to North Carolina but it was THOMAS FOY,
supposedly the son of FRANCIS FOY.

CLAUDIUS B. FOY claimed it was FRANCIS, not JOHN, who came from
France to England to America. CLAUDIUS thought it was FRANCIS who
settled in Maryland where he and MISS MILES had five children, one girl and
four boys; MARY, PETER, MILES, JOSHUA, and THOMAS. Further,
CLAUDIUS writes, it was THOMAS, the son of FRANCIS, who was the father
of JAMES; it was THOMAS who was the grandfather of FRANKLIN and it
was THOMAS who had FIVE sons named JOHN, THOMAS JR., JAMES,
JACOB, and FREDERICK. This is all, of course, very confusing to those of us
who do not have access to CLAUDIUS’ collected material.

Notice also that in FRANKLIN FOY’s letter he lists a woman named SERENA
as being one of the children of JAMES FOY, who was FRANKLIN’s own
grandfather. Research indicates SERENA was actually thought to be the wife of
THOMAS FOY. If SERENA was the wife of THOMAS, she would have been
the mother of JAMES FOY, which would make her FRANKLIN’s great
grandmother. How quickly names and data become confused and I am not
certain that we have it right even now. But, you begin to see the quagmire a
researcher finds himself in as he tries to establish a beginning of his family tree.

The same researcher who found FRANKLIN FOY’s letter to his nephew,
CLAUDIUS, would have also found another document, a statement (date

unknown) written by one AMOS FRANKLIN FOY (actually, AMOS SIMMONS
FOY). AMOS was the son of FREDERICK FOY, JR (another family tree
member of the Cisco Clan.)

In his statement, AMOS says;

“My great grandfather was from France, he married an English lady in
Yorkshire, England. He was the one who settled, what is termed, the French
Huguenot settlement on Trent River, North Carolina. His location was at

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