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by late 1775 there was fighting in the South.

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JAMES FOY, SENIOR was an officer in the American Revolutionary forces.
There are several references in public records to that fact but the most complete
information can be obtained from DAR records as discussed in the previous
chapter.

In the Revolutionary War, according to records on file in Raleigh and
Washington, JAMES FOY served his country first as a lieutenant and later was
promoted to the rank of Captain.

COLONIAL RECORDS OF 1776, VOL. X, p. 626, State Records; extracts from

minutes of New Hanover Superior Court, October Term, 1832, Hon. ROBERT
STRANGE, Judge presiding, Wednesday, October 31st, 1832 report:

“For the Wilmington Brigade No 2- For Onslow County- Ephram Battle,
Captain; James Foy, Lieutenant; William Shaw, Ensign.”

“This deponent knows that the same JAMES DEVANE had command of a
Company in South Carolina opposite Cheraw Mills, at which place this
deponent was put under the command of the said JAMES DEVANE, having
been previously under the command of Captain JAMES FOY: etc”

Signed James Lee “

There are also a number of references to JAMES FOY’s military record in the
North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol, V, page 46, Folio 4.

The DAR records lists four battles in which JAMES FOY participated. Below are
descriptions of those battles:

Ch. 10 Pg. 4