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BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND

or any of the FOYs to have come to Texas in the 1800s, they first had to
Fhave been somewhere else and in all the research work I have seen
regarding the FOYs of the Cisco Clan line the general consensus is when the
FOYs came to the new world from wherever they were, they came first to
Maryland.

We have already looked at some early Maryland records that established there were,
indeed, FOYs in Maryland in the late 1600s and the odds are they were our FOYs.

We have also discussed the controversy about who might have been first FOY to

America that was related to the Cisco Clan; i.e. FRANCIS, JOHN or others. We have
discussed the controversial FRANCIS FOY as possibly being a resident in Baltimore
County, Maryland. We now turn to his alleged son, THOMAS FOY, who is next in
line in most FOY researcher’s works.

THE AHS DOCUMENT AGAIN:

No one doubts there was a THOMAS FOY living in Maryland in the 1700's and no
one doubts there was also a THOMAS FOY living in North Carolina in the 1700's.
The problem is the assumption that the two THOMAS FOYs were the same
individual. Again, that assumption made by many FOY researchers initially comes
from the AHS document.

As stated, early Maryland records mention the names THOMAS FOY and FRANCIS
FOY several times. This is pointed out by the AHS document. Then, after reaching

the giant conclusion FRANCIS FOY was “quite possibly” the “original FOY settler
in Maryland” the AHS document relates:

Much interest attaches to one THOMAS FOY who, with wife REBECCA, had
a son JOHN born in St. John’s Parish, Baltimore, January 18, 1726. The wife
was perhaps daughter of PETER PUTTEE, of Baltimore County, who in his
will dated October 5, 1733, bequeathed to his son LEWIS and his five

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