William Winston Fontaine

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• Birth: 26 Mar 1786; "Rock Castle", Hanover, Virginia, United States

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Marriage Index: MD, NC, VA, 1624-1915
Fontaine, William Spouse : Dandridge, Martha Hale
Marriage date : Jan 16, 1810

Birth:
"Rock Castle", Hanover, Virginia, United States

William married Martha Hale Dandridge on 16 Jan 1810 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA. Martha (daughter of Jr. Nathaniel West Dandridge and Sarah Watson) was born on 23 Sep 1795 in Virginia, USA; died on 7 Apr 1875 in Martinsville, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Patrick Henry Fontaine was born on 18 May 1813 in Martinsville, VA; died on 3 Nov 1845 in Martinsville, VA.
2. Anne Fontaine was born in 1810/1838; died in 1807/1918.
3. William Spotswood Fontaine was born on 7 Nov 1810 in Yellow House, Hanover County, VA; died in 1882.
4. Sarah Ann Fontaine was born on 5 Nov 1815 in Virginia, USA; died on 9 Feb 1909.

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• Residence: Between 1774 and 1775, Scotchtown, Hanover, Virginia, USA
• Residence: Between 1779 and 1786, Leatherwood, Henry, Virginia, USA
• Residence: Between 1786 and 1791, Locust Grove, Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA

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They are second cousins.

Died:
malaria

John married Martha "Patsy" Henry on 2 Oct 1773 in Scotchtown, Hanover, Virginia, USA. Martha (daughter of Patrick Henry and Sarah Shelton) was born in Jun 1755 in Fork, Hanover, Virginia, USA; died in Oct 1818 in Leatherwood, Henry, Virginia, USA; was buried in Martinsville, Martinsville City, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They are second cousins.

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• Residence: 1759; "Rock Castle", Hanover, Virginia, United States

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Birth:
"Beaverdam", Hanover County.Virginia, USA

Died:
"Rock Castle", Hanove County, Virginia, USA

Peter married Elizabeth Louise Winston on 20 Apr 1749 in Hanove County, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William "Langloo" Winston and Sarah Dabney) was born on 17 Dec 1734 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA; died about 1772; was buried in Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
"Beaverdam", Hanover County, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: Jun 1779, Henry County, VA

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Patrick married Sarah Shelton in Oct 1754 in Studley, Hanover, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Jr. John Shelton and Eleanor Parks) was born in 1738 in Rural Plains, Hanover, Virginia, USA; died in Apr 1775 in Scotchtown, Hanover, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: Feb 1775, Scotchtown, Hanover, Virginia, USA
• Death: Feb 1775, Scotchtown, Hanover, Virginia, USA

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• Immigration: 30 Mar 1716, Virginia, USA
• Death: Aug 1759, Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA

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Entered Trinity College, Dublin, in June 1711 at the age of twenty and received his degree in 1715. Ordained by the Bishop of London and licensed as a minister to Virginia on March 12, 1715.

Arrived in Virginia on December 11, 1716 and, in 1720, became Rector of Westover Parish. Established himself on a plantation in Charles City County, Virginia, on the James River, and served as Rector of King William Parish until his death in July 1757.

Peter was born in 1691 in England and was ordained by the Bishop of London. He married Elizabeth "Lizzy" Fourreau on March 29, 1714 in Dublin, Ireland. On December 11, 1716, he arrived in Hampton, Virginia from Ireland and was a chaplain to the Virginia commission in 1728 and 1729. After Lizzy died, Peter married Joseph's mother Elizabeth Sarah Wade. In "Old Church Ministers and Families of Virginia" by Bishop William Meade, Meade records that Peter was the minister for Colonel William Byrd. Colonel Byrd often spoke of the reverend preaching to the heathen in North Carolina and baptizing their children. Reverend Fontaine's main mission in life was to preach the gospel. Peter was the son of two pious and valiant Huguenots who fled from France to England. Peter, in his annual Thanksgiving sermon, commemorated the Fontaines' religious persecution in France and the remarkable preservation when attacked by French privateers in Northern Ireland. From that sermon, I will repeat his words.

"Several months was our parent obliged to shift among forests and deserts for his safety, because he had preached the Word of God to a congregation of innocent and sincere persons, who desired to be instructed in their duty and confirmed their faith. The woods afforded him a shelter and the rocks a resting place; but his enemies gave him no quiet until, of his own accord, he delivered himself up to their custody. They loaded his hands with chains, his feet stuck fast in the mire, a dungeon was his abode, and murderers and thieves were his companions, until God by means of a pious gentlewoman, whose kindness ought to be remembered by us even to latent posterity, withdrew him from thence, and was the occasion that his confinement was more tolerable."

He exhorted to his congregation at the close of his sermon never to forsake their annual meetings which were to remember their parent's virtues and sufferings and the wonderful deliverance of God. He said, "Would to God, that you would make it your business to teach them to your children, that they may be qualified to perpetuate them to infinite generations to come, and thereby engage the protection and draw the blessing of the Almighty above them. He hath millions of millions to bestow on those who love and fear Him."

Peter married Elizabeth Ward Fourreau on 29 Mar 1714 in Dublin, Ireland. Elizabeth (daughter of Fourreau and Boulay) was born in 1700 in Portarlington, Ireland; died in Sep 1724 in Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lt. William "Langloo Billy" was named in the will of his father, Capt. Isaac Winston, in his will of 1760. He fought in the French and Indian War. He was the Uncle of Patrick Henry. (See more in the Winstons of Hanover Co. and Related Families by Alfred Winston Sumner III.)

William married Sarah Dabney about 1730 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of George Dabney and Elizabeth Anderson) was born on 16 May 1695 in King William County, Virginia, USA; died on 17 Apr 1767 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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House of Burgesses, 1st Governor of Virginia, & Senator.

Some time, but not very long prior to 1730, John Henry came directly from Scotland to Virginia. In April, 1733, his brother, Patrick Henry, an Episcopalian minister, also came over.

The two brothers were very much attached to each other and ever afterwards lived not far apart. They were cousins of David Henry, who went from Scotland to London at the age of fourteen, and became a journeyman printer in the same office with Benjamin Franklin. He married a sister of Edward Cave, the founder of the "Gentleman's Magazine," in London.

David was for more than fifty years associate editor of the Magazine, and in that publication describes his Henry kin as "more respected for their good sense and superior education than for their riches, as at every neighborhood meeting they were among the foremost."

John married Sarah Winston after 7 Oct 1732 in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Isaac Winston and Mary Ann Dabney) was born about 1710 in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Nov 1784 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Clifford, Amherst County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Probate: 1 Dec 1784, Amherst County, Virginia, USA

John married Eleanor Parks about 1737 in York County, Virginia, USA. Eleanor (daughter of William Parks and Eleanor) was born about 1713; died after 1738. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]