John’s Parish, Baltimore, MD died 1791 in Craven Co., NC.
and Rebecca Puttee (died 1785, Jones County) include: The couple later relocated from Baltimore County, Maryland, to Craven County, NC, in 1749, settling on the Trent River at a point known as Rocky Run, near New Bern. Thomas Foy, Sr., born 1703, and his wife, Rebecca Puttee Putter, born 1710, married January 1726.
Their known children were: Mary Foy, Peter Foy, Miles Foy, Joshua Foy, and Thomas Foy, Sr. According to Onlsow County Heritage – North Carolina (Copyright 1983), Francis Foy, a native of Normandy, France, was the direct ancestor of all the Onslow County Foys.įrancis Foy traveled from France to England to escape persecution, and married Serena Miles in Yorkshire, England, where he indentured himself to gain passage to America, settling in Baltimore County, Maryland, about 1673. For more than five generations, Poplar Grove Plantation was owned and operated by the Foy family, descended from French Hugenots and settling in the Americas around 1670.
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