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that keep alive the memory of men and women who won American
independence. It encourages the study of American history, and maintains relics
and records of early America.

Membership in the DAR requires a detailed and complete record of ancestry for
an applicant from someone directly involved in the Revolutionary War for
Independence to the present. This ancestry is carefully scrutinized and
membership is a very honored status. It is partly because of the rigid
requirements of the DAR that much of the research done on JAMES FOY and
his issue is so accurate and abundant.

Each of you women who are descendants of JOHN ELON FOY are eligible for
membership in the DAR.

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JAMES FOY, SR was born in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1737. Some
researchers claim he was born in 1732, however, according to a newspaper item
appearing in the December 13, 1822 issue of the Raleigh Register “Major
JAMES FOY, in the 85th year of his age died in Onslow County on the 11th. He
lost his wife only 12 day previously.”

If he had been born in 1732, as some claim, he would have been 90 years old
when he died; if born in 1737 he would have been 85.

In researching JAMES FOY SR it is easy to become confused. One of the
reasons for that is that JAMES FOY had a son, also named JAMES FOY. It is
often difficult to tell which JAMES FOY is the subject of a particular document

since they both lived at the same time and in the same places. For that reason
researchers in their writings have attempted to distinguish between the two by
labeling the older (the father) JAMES FOY SR and his son JAMES FOY JR.

Another reason records concerning JAMES FOY SR are confusing is because
he married twice and each time married a woman named ELIZABETH WARD.
These two ELIZABETH WARDs were apparently cousins and did not have the
same father. To compound this confusion JAMES FOY SR and his wife,
ELIZABETH, had a daughter whom they named...... you’re right.... they named

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