Peter Forreau Fontaine

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Birth:
"Beaverdam", Hanover Co., VA

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles Fontaine
2. Louisa Fontaine
3. John Fontaine
4. Alexander Fontaine
5. William Fontaine

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Between 1776 and 1781, Virginia, USA; Commanded a company in the 2nd Virginia regiment, and, 1779-81, served as lieutenant colonel of the Convention Guards.

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Spotsylvania Co., VA Land
Book and Page: O
Date Made: 21 Nov 1794
Property: 2 negroes.
Remarks:
Novr. 21, 1794. John Lewis of Spots. Co. to Wm. Fontaine of Hanover Co. and John Spotswood of Orange Co., Executors of Bowles Armistead, Decd., to indemnify them, conveys to them 2 negroes, etc., etc. Witnesses, Will.
Frazer, R. Frazer. Jany. 6, 1795.
Name Title Description Residence
Armistead, Bowles Deceased Spotsylvania Co., VA
Fontaine, Wm. Grantee Hanover Co., VA
Frazer, R. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Frazer, Will. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Lewis, John Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Spotswood, John Grantee Orange Co., VA

Birth:
"Beaverdam", Hanover Co., VA

Died:
"Beaverdam", Hanover Co., VA

William married Anne Morris in 1789 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Anne (daughter of William Morris and Elizabeth) was born on 14 Apr 1766 in St Martins Par., Hanover County, VA; died on 21 Jul 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
"Beaverdam", Hanover Co., VA

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

William married Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1742; died in 1818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
"Beaverdam", Hanover Co., VA

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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]