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greatly dampened by the swampy waters of Moore’s Creek.

As mentioned, one of the officers for the Patriot army, as shown in Colonial
records on file in Raleigh and Washington, was Lieutenant JAMES FOY. JAMES
was assigned to the Wilmington Brigade No. 2 for Onslow County. His Captain
was EPHRAM BATTLE, their Ensign was WILLIAM SHAW. This is found in
Volume X, page 626.

Also on file in the Raleigh museum in the State records are extracts from the
minutes of New Hanover Superior Court, October term 1832, Honorable
ROBERT STRANGE, Judge presiding. Among those extracts is the following:

“Wednesday, October 31, 1832

..................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
Volume xv, page 789

Every library in the United States will have several books dedicated to the
American Revolutionary War and it is not our intent to furnish a detailed account
of that war on these pages, rather, to discuss the battles that involved JAMES
FOY, SENIOR.

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