A list of my family tree surnames.....

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2. We have some in common

Fike - ours showed up in North Carolina in the mid 1700s. Oddly enough, our first Fike we can trace married a Malachi - I haven't been able to trace her lineage at all. One of my Fikes' first name was German so I'm not sure if this is the same line. I just thought it odd you have both Fike and Malachi! I've seen them connected to Fitch from Connecticut, but I am not convinced that connection is valid.

Foushee - I have a lot of research on that name! There is a John Foushee or Jean Fouasse who immigrated in 1700. A James Foushee referenced in Virginia colonial records because he was among the French Huegonots to be naturalized:

In 1705, the General Assembly passed two acts concerning naturalization. On 12 May, an act to naturalize the 148 Huguenots resident at Manakintown was passed. (Waverly K. Winfree, The Laws of Virginia, Being A Supplement to Hening’s The Statutes at Large . . . [1971], 39–41.) Further information on the Manakintown settlement is available in Priscilla Cabell, Turff and Twigg (1998) and in M. S. Giuseppi, ed., Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies, Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 24 (1921).

In October 1705 the General Assembly passed a general act for the naturalization of foreigners. This act had three provisions: (1) letters of naturalization could be granted foreigners by the governor or commander-in-chief of the colony; (2) foreigners who applied were required to take an oath appointed by Parliament; and (3) all persons who purchased land from aliens were granted clear title to that land. (See Hening, 3: 434–435, 548–549.) Under the act of 1705, French Huguenot James Foushee was naturalized in Richmond County in 1711 and Jacob Holtzclaw, a German, was naturalized in Spotsylvania County in 1725. (See Richmond County Miscellaneous Records, 1699–1724: 68, and Spotsylvania
County Deed Book A, 1722–1729: 165.)

Virginia Naturalizations, 1657-1776
Research Notes Number 9
The Library of Virginia
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/rn9_natural1657.pdf

The Foshee/Foushee/Forshee lines are quite confusing. I'm still trying to sort out exactly which one I go back to. I've got for certain with documentation Mary Foushee who married Abraham Cook in NC and her brothers, Joseph and Elijah (as proven by Joseph's will which mentions both and their children), but I haven't been able to prove who their parents were. Most think they are children of John Foushee, Jr. and Aphia Thornton who lived in Cedar Run, Culpeper, Virginia, but their children are well documented by his will and the combination I have documented is not included. That's why I have so much on Foushees in NC and VA - trying to sort out the various branches to see which I can validate as mine.