Mary Anne Bullock

Mary married Thomas Hart Shelby in 1821 in Kentucky. Thomas (son of Isaac Shelby and Susanna Hart) was born in Kentucky; died in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Fontaine Shelby was born in Kentucky; died in Kentucky.

Notes:

Edmund was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.

HON. WILLIAM FONTAINE BULLOCK was born in Fayette County, Ky., January 10, 1807, and is descended from one of the prominent families of Kentucky. The following was written by himself, of his parents, some years ago: "My father, Edmund Bullock, the oldest son of Edward and Agnes Bullock, was a native of Hanover County, Va., and was descended from a stock distinguished for integrity. His education was a thorough and accurate as the times would permit. In early life he emigrated to the 'District of Kentucky," where he soon acquired a high standing, based upon his exalted merits as a man and as a citizen. In all his dealings he was faithful and just, and in his intercourse with his fellow-men he was polite, noble and generous. He was soon called into public life, and was, for many years, a leading member of the Legislature of Kentucky. He was speaker, at different times, of both branches of that body, and in that capacity won for himself a high reputation. He was alike remarkable for his dignity and urbanity of manners and for his stern and unbending sense of justice. Throughout a long life he lived above reproach--a noble specimen of an honest man. He died in the eighty-ninth year of his age, at peace with God through faith in Christ. My mother, Elizabeth, was the second daughter of Aaron Fontaine, who was the youngest son of Rev. Peter Fontaine, and was born in Virginia, in 1754. The Rev. Peter Fontaine came from England to America in 1715, and was soon thereafter installed as rector of one of the oldest parishes of the Episcopal Church in the State of Virginia. He was the son of Rev. James Fontaine, who fled from France to England upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. He was a Huguenot of noble birth and of the most indomitable energy, and was especially distinguished for his heroic devotion to his Protestant faith. My grandfather was a noble scion of such a stock. I never saw my mother; she died at my birth. My knowledge of her is derived from my father, who, to the close of a long life, never ceased to cherish her memory and to impress upon my heart the highest appreciation of her lovely character." Such was the family from which the subject of this sketch sprung. Judge Bullock has long been in a corps of celebrities, second to none in the Union in the point of ability and fame. The Kentucky bar enjoys a high reputation, and its members have largely influenced the character, not only of the great West, but of the entire country. The mother of most of the Western States, she can point to her deeds in National Councils, and her sons' glory in the fame of her Breckinridge, Nicholas, Daviess, Clay, Rowan, Crittenden, Barry, Sharp, Boyle, Owsley, Mills, Trimble, Bibb, Robertson, and a host of others, who contributed to the imperishable legal renown of the State. For a long period of time, in the early history of Kentucky, Lexington enjoyed a large portion of the renown of the State. The first newspaper west of the Alleghenies was published in Lexington; Transylvania University, for a number of years the most renowned institution of learning in the great valley of the Ohio, was located there. From that venerable hall of learning, Kentucky scattered, with a profuse hand, her intellectual treasures over the West and South. While Transylvania University was under the auspicious administration of President Holley, it is doubtful whether any city in the United States possessed a larger share of intellectual activity than Lexington. Education flourished in all its departments, and a love of literature and science pervaded all ranks. The general pursuit of knowledge which characterized the people enabled them to support for many years the finest public library in the West, to which was attached reading-rooms, containing all the best periodicals in the English language. The great genius of Matthew Jouett, one of the noblest artists on canvas that his country has produced, and the cultivated taste, public spirit and enterprise of John D. Clifford, command the prosperity of the fine arts. Philosophy, literature, classical learning, science and art, went hand in hand, and Lexington was the glory, the pride, and the cynosure of the West. In addition to the resources of intellectual growth and activity already mentioned, Lexington maintained, for about fifteen years, the ablest, most prosperous and successful medical school in the western country. Nor were the interests of a law-school neglected in the midst of these intellectual energies; but one was established, as a department of the University, which speedily attained a high rank. The genius and abilities of the bar of Lexington were illustrated by Henry Clay, William T. Barry, William Blair, Jesse Bledsoe, Joseph Cabell, Breckinridge, and others, who, with less extended fame, enjoyed a high reputation at home. It was in the midst of these intellectual energies, that the subject of this sketch first saw the light. At an early period he exhibited a fondness for study, and such was the proficiency attained at a country school, that he entered Transylvania University, and graduated in 1824, when he was but seventeen years of age. No student ever entered those classic halls with a higher reputation; and his devotion to study, his modesty and good habits, enabled him to add largely to his youthful fame. At the time of his graduation, he was esteemed as second to none of the distinguished eleves of Transylvania University, then in the zenith of her renown. As an orator, he was unrivalled in that institution; and such was his great distinction, that upon the return of Mr. Clay to Kentucky, after his vote for Mr. Adams, when his congressional district determined, in its own language, "to speak its instructions to Henry Clay, in a language that could neither be misunderstood or mistaken," the youthful orator of Transylvania was selected to deliver the speech, welcoming the patriot of Kentucky to the hearts of those who had long entrusted their political interests to his keeping. It was an occasion of deep interest; it drew people from various parts of the State, and an immense assembly of Kentuckians, and citizens of other States were gathered to received the illustrious sage of Ashland. For the time being, the eyes of the nation were upon Lexington. The traducers of the fame of her most illustrious son looked on the scene with fear and trembling, while the friends of the administration of Mr. Adams looked to it as a source of hopeful energy and triumph. In the midst of all these great interests, in the presence of that great assemblage, indeed, of the American people, the young orator of Transylvania addressed a speech of welcome to Henry Clay that was worthy of the occasion. It was an effort of eloquence of which any son of Kentucky might well have been proud. Even during the mighty response of Henry Clay, whether its eloquent tones were moving the best feelings of our nature, or its withering scorn was hurling defiance and its anathemas upon the heads of those whose machinations were struggling for his ruin, the calm and elevated eloquence of the youthful orator worked its ways into the memories of the people, and placed him conspicuous among the speakers of Kentucky. In 1828 Mr. Bullock moved to Louisville, Ky., and commenced the practice of law, in the midst of as formidable competition as could be found in the State. But the same habits that had given him such enviable distinction in the curriculum of Transylvania University, soon attracted attention to him in his new sphere of duty, and gave him high rank among the able men who adorned the Louisville bar. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives in 1838, 1840, 1841, and was the author of some of the noblest monuments of Kentucky legislation. To his well directed efforts Kentucky is indebted for her common-school system. He introduced the bill into legislature, and by his eloquence, his mastery of the whole subject, and his untiring labors, both as the eloquent exponent of the cause before the representatives of the people and the profound writer for the press, he so deeply engraved the merits of the common school system upon the public mind, that it now defies all the powers of its enemies. Various efforts have been made to cripple this system, and the most formidable was in 1843, to cancel the bonds of the State, which had been given to the Board of Education, on account of a loan of the money that had been appropriated to the common-school system. The original appropriation was $850,000, a portion of the dividend paid to Kentucky from the surplus revenue of the general government. This sum was loaned to the State on her bonds. In 1843, an attempt was made to cancel these bonds, by which the common-school system would have been utterly destroyed. Mr. Bullock was not at that time a member of the legislature, but he earnestly appealed, through the press, against this great outrage. While the danger lasted he was always at his post, battling for the cause that had enlisted his zeal and his best abilities. A profound debt of gratitude is due to Judge Bullock for his services in the cause of education. When efforts were first begun in Kentucky for an improved management of the insane, those efforts found in him a zealous and intelligent champion. In 1842, he produced a profound impression upon the public mind, by a report which he submitted to the Kentucky legislature on the management of the insane. He accompanied the report with a speech which commanded the attention of the State, and to his exertions the triumph of the cause is due. Kentucky has been exceedingly liberal since that time in her appropriations to the insane; and the lunatic asylums now compare for the excellence with any in the United States. Another crowning glory of Judge Bullock's legislative career, was in his successful exertions to procure an endowment from the State for an institution for the education of the blind. His eloquent advocacy of the cause, his zeal and energy, were crowned with success; and in 1841 the legislature of Kentucky appropriated $10,000 toward establishing a school for the blind. This is the favorite eleemosynary institution in Kentucky. The legislature has been liberal in its endowments for its support, and the institution has resources now to place it upon a sure basis. Judge Bullock was one of the original trustees of this institution, and has been one of the most active and useful members of the Board to the present time. He has been president to the Board of Trustees most of the time from its first organization until now. These are the monuments of the legislative career of Judge Bullock, and his friends point to them as the characteristics of the man. After the close of his legislative career, Mr. Bullock again resumed the practice of his profession. In 1846, he was appointed to the bench as judge of the Fifth Judicial district, an appointment that gave general satisfaction. His high legal reputation, his urbanity of demeanor, his decision and firmness, and his universally acknowledged integrity in all things gave an earnest of a successful career in this new sphere of usefulness, which has been fully redeemed by his judicial course. Pursuing a strong natural bent, Judge Bullock has played a conspicuous part as a popular orator. A devoted personal friend and an ardent political admirer of Henry Clay, he long ranked among the most attractive and effective Whig leaders in a period when the hustings offered in Kentucky a high arena for intellectual conflict, and an exciting theater for brilliant displays of eloquence. In view of the close relationship to Mr. Clay, he was befittingly chosen to deliver the oration that was uttered in the presence of a vast assemblage in Louisville, May 30, 1867, on the occasion of unveiling the life-size statute of the great statesman--the handiwork of Joel T. Hart--which now adorns the rotunda of the court-house. But it is chiefly as a lawyer and jurist that Judge Bullock has evinced his highest powers. During the last forty years he has ranked among the foremost members of the Kentucky bar. The records of the court show that he has been an unusually successful practitioner, often making great and triumphant arguments before judges and juries, and always exhibiting marked ability in the management of his cases. He has justly been styled one of the most courteous and yet most formidable antagonists in the forum. For twelve years, dating from 1849, he was a member of the law faculty of the University of Louisville, in which capacity he displayed much learning and skill as a teacher, and inspired his students with a love of the science which he taught. He has virtually retired from active practice, but as late as 1882, he appeared before the Court of Appeals, in the case of the Louisville Bridge Company against the city of Louisville, as attorney for the former corporation, and delivered an argument for his client seldom equaled in the presence of that tribunal.

Bullock Fontaine Jouett Clifford Hart

Fayette-KY Hanover-VA France England

Buried in Clark Family Cemetery (No Dates)
Ann Clark Bullock
Edmund Bullock
Mary Eliza Bullock
Alfred Bullock

Edmund married Elizabeth Fontaine on 19 May 1799 in Jefferson County, KY. Elizabeth (daughter of Aaron Fontaine and Barbara Overton Terrell) was born on 5 Sep 1780 in Louisa County, VA; died on 16 Jan 1807 in Fayette County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1800, Harrods Creek, Jefferson County, KY

Notes:

Served as ensign from Louisa County, Virginia militia.

Spotsylvania Co., VA Land
Book and Page: J
Date Made: 8 Mar 1774
Property: 260 a. in Spts. Co.
Remarks:
Joseph Herndon and Betty, his wife; Charles Gordon and Mary, his wife, of Spts. Co. to Aaron Fontaine. 200 curr. 260 a. in Spts. Co. Wm. Smith, Edwd. Herndon, Peter Stubblefield. Augt. 18, 1774.
Name Title Description Residence
Fontaine, Aaron Grantee Spotsylvania Co., VA
Gordon, Charles Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Gordon, Mary Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Betty Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Edwd. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Joseph Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Smith, Wm. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Stubblefield, Peter Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA

Spotsylvania Co., VA Land
Book and Page: K
Date Made: 15 May 1782
Property: 260 a. in Spts. Co.
Remarks:
Aaron Fontaine and Barbara, his wife, to David Sandidge of Spots. co. 222 curr. 260 a. in Spots. Co. No witnesses. June 20, 1782. Name Title Description Residence
Fontaine, Aaron Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Fontaine, Barbara Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Sandidge, David Grantee Spotsylvania Co., VA

From http://jscott.tierranet.com/ancestry/fontaine/aaronfon.htm

This is transcribed from a copy of a newspaper article "Century of Old Fontaine Estate" by Mary Lytle Byers (maybe from Courier Journal?) from 1914 (this date based on wording in text) The copy was in poor condition. Unreadable text is shown as ..... in the transcription below. It could be more than one article, as the pieces were fragmentary and hard to read. J. Scott, April 1999

"Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both looking and feeling queer -- "

Hardly can be held to apply to Fontaine Ferry park which under the management of Col. Harry A. Bilger, soon will open for the summer season of 1914. It is probable that few persons recall that this is the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the famous fountain that gave the celebrated amusement resort its name and prestige. An article prepared by Charles Thurston who is one of the descendants of the Fontaines, tells some interesting incidents in connection with the origin of the place.

Mr. Thurston says:
"Col. Aaron Fontaine came from Virginia in 1798 with a family of twelve children and his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, and settled on Harrods Creek in Jefferson county, of this State. He afterward removed, on January 17, 1814, to the banks of the Ohio river west of Louisville and established his family on a large estate which was purchased by him from Mr. William Lytle, of Cincinnati, O. This estate was part of 3,000 acres purchased by his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, from Sarah Beard, July 7, 1806, the property being known as part of the Connolly and De Warnsdorff tracts.

"The estate purchased by Col. Aaron Fontaine from William Lytle embraced... acres and at the time of its purchase the property was called "Carter's ferry". It was afterward named "Fontaine Ferry" by Col. Fontaine in 1814 and the place was laid out in orchards lawns and grasslands. The house, of substantial construction, faced the Ohio River, where a boat was kept for pleasure and service. A fine cypress avenue opened on what is now Main and the old "Fountaine Ferry Road" was a famous drive leading into the country retreat. Here Col. Fontaine lived the life of a country squire in the good old days in peace, plenty and hospitality, 100 years ago.

"Col. Fontaine was a gentleman of the old school whose type almost has passed away. He was of French descent and a member of a noble Huguenot family in France. Among the number of the ancestors of this Huguenot was the noted Peverence Peter Fontaine, rector of Westover parish, Charles City County, Va., in 1716. It is said of Col. Fontaine that he was particularly courteous and polite to everyone with whom he came in contact and particularly so to his wife to whom he always doffed his hat before taking his morning toddy and insisted that she taste the toddy first.

"Col. Fontaine, previous to his emigration to Kentucky in 1798, married Barbara Terril, of Virginia, who traced her lineage to the royal house of Stuart and was the granddaughter of Col. William Overton, of "Glencairn," Hanover county, Va. Twelve children were born of this marriage as follows: Mary Ann, the wife of Judge Fortunatus Cosby; Mathilda, the wife of Thomas Prather; Martha, the wife of Alexander Pope; America, the wife of William S. Vernon; Sallie, the wife of Gov. George Floyd; Deborah, the wife of Judge Edmund Bullock; Maria the wife of Sterling Grimes; Barbara, the wife of John Sanders, Ann Overton, the wife of John I. Jacob, and Peter, John and Maury Fontaine, sons.

"Soon after the death of his first wife, Barbara Terrill Fontaine, Col. Fontaine married Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston, the widow of Col. John Thruston, of "Sans Souel," of Jefferson county, who was with Gen. George Rogers Clark in the campaigns against the British and the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. Mrs. Thruston had ten children when she married Col. Fontaine and four children were the result of this marriage.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston's children were Charles M. Thruston, Sr., lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856; Alfred Thruston, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833; Algernon Thruston, Attorney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:" Lucius Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Kitty Luckett, Louisville; Mrs. Worden Pope, Louisville; Mrs. Mollie January, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Fanny Rector, of Arkansas; Mary Thruston, of Louisville, and John Thruston, II, Louisville. The children of the marriage of Col. Fontaine and Mrs. Thruston were Aaron B. Fontaine, Alexander Fontaine, Henry W. Fontaine and Emmeline Dillon Fontaine.

.... have twenty six children .... ets of children in this ... family and the writer has ... distinction of being the ...grandson of Col. Aaron Fontaine and his two wives as well as Judge Fortunatus Cosby and his wife Mary Ann, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thruston, Sr., the latter being a granddaughter of Col. Fontaine and the daughter of Judge Cosby. It is unusual that a grandson should be related on both sides to all the heads of the three families by direct blood descent.

"There may be several omissions in this genealogy which the writer is notable to supply from his notes, but the data given is of sufficient scope to interest the large number of descendants of this extensive connection now living in Louisville.

"In conclusion it may not be amiss to mention some of the members of this family who have achieved something more than a local reputation. Among the number whose names are recalled are Gen. George Cosby, C.S.A., of California; Admiral Frank Coast, U.S. Navy; Gen. Gates Thruston, U.S.A., Nashville, Tenn.; Admiral Levin Powell, U.S.N., Washington D.C., Algernon Thruston, ex - Attorney General, of Texas; Henry Rector, formerly Governor of Arkansas; Alfred Thruston, first cashier of the Bank of Louisville; Judge Buckner Thruston, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1805 to 1809; Patrick ... (Fontaine?), member of Congress from the... district of Kentucky, and Charles .... Thruston, eminent as a lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856.

The son of this Jean de la Fontaine became a minister of the Protestant churches of Royan and Vaux -- he was called the "prophet of the persecution," as by his untiring labor and exhortations he prepared his people for the great persecution of the Huguenots that followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. This devoted pastor, though of simple tastes and abstemious habits, was a man of commanding figure and dignified presence. By his second marriage to a beautiful French girl --Marie de Chaillon -- an heiress and much his, junior, he became the owner of the estate of Jenouille and the Manor of Jaffe. It was here that his youngest son -- and a man destined to make the name renowned in history as "the fighting Huguenot" -- was born in 1653.

"The Fighting Huguenot."

Jacques Fontaine -- for the title had been dropped -- the most famous of the name, gives a personal account in his "Memoirs of a Huguenot" of his trial and persecution for the faith, his daring escape with his betrothed wife from France, and their subsequent life and adventures in England. After teaching school, inventing and manufacturing a new weave of cloth, he finally went to Ireland, taking charge of a French congregation in Cork. Here M. Fontaine was held in such esteem that he was presented with the freedom of the city. It was in an engagement with a French privateer, manned by Frenchmen and carrying eighty men and ten guns, off the coast of Ireland, that M. Fontaine defended his household and himself so bravely that through the influence of his friend, the Duke of Ormonde and Governor General of Ireland, he was granted a pension from Queen Anne in 1705, in recognition of his bravery and service.

The Coming to Virginia

It remained for three sons and one daughter of "the fighting Huguenot" to perpetuate the name and qualities of their ancestors in the new world. Capt. John Fontaine, and English officer; Pierre and Francis, both clergymen of the Church of England, and Mary Anne Fontaine, their sister, who had married Matthew Maury, of Castle Mauron, Gascony, landed in Virginia, and were given a cordial welcome by Gov. Spotteswoode. Mary Anne Maury became the ancestress of the many noted men and women of that name. Pierre Fontaine had the good fortune to become the rector of Westover parish and chaplain to that "prince of the lordly manor of Westover," the distinguished Col. William Evelyn Byrd. In a novel by Marian Harland, called "His Great Self," founded on the Westover manuscripts of Col. Byrd, Pierre Fontaine is shown to be a familiar member of the household, and an intimate friend of the beautiful Evelyn. He is described as "a polished scholar and courtly gentleman of winning manners, with an olive complexion, clearly chiseled features, soft, dark brilliant eyes, 'a true descendant of the handsomest man in Navarre.'"

Romance says he was in love with the ill-fated Evelyn Byrd, but realizing the hopelessness of his own suit aided her by every means in his power in her unfortunate love affair with her English lover, Lord Peterborough.

Both Pierre Fontaine and his brother, Capt., John Fontaine, were members of Gov. Spottesswoode's famous expedition across the blue Ridge in 1716, which ended on their return in the institution of the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe," Gov. Spotteswoode presenting to each member a miniature gold horseshoe inscribed with the motto "Sic Juvat transcendere Montes." The journal of Capt. John Fontaine had been preserved, in which he gives an account of the party reaching the top of the range of mountains, and drinking a health to King George and the royal family.

Some Noted descendants.

A grandson of the Rev. Pierre Fontaine, of Westover, Col. William Fontaine, was an officer in the Revolution, being present with his regiment at the surrender of Yorktown by Lord Cornwallis. A letter written to his relatives, soon after the glorious event, gives the personal description of an eye-witness.

Other noted representatives of the family were Charles D. Fontaine, of New Orleans, a great-grandson of Patrick Henry, and a celebrated statesman; Dr. Clement Rush Fontaine, an eminent physician of Virginia; Col. Walter Lloyd Fontaine and Lamar Fontaine, known as a "raconteur" and daring Confederate soldier.

Various descendants of the Fontaine family have distinguished themselves in the service of the army and navy while others in the church and the professions have reflected credit on the name.

The Kentucky Fontaines.

The Fontaines of Kentucky, brought to the Commonwealth the heritage of an honored ... and ancestry, were descended from Aaron Fontaine, son of the Rev. Peter Fontaine, of Westover, and born -- it is said -- in his father's seventieth year, 1753.

In his youth young Aaron Fontaine lived with his sister, Mrs. Isaac Winston

Aaron married Barbara Overton Terrell on 19 May 1773 in Louisa County, VA. Barbara (daughter of Jr. Richmond Terrell and Ann Overton) was born on 3 Sep 1756 in St Martins, Louisa County, VA; died on 10 Jul 1798 in en route to Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 Sarah Wade in 1740 in Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Wade and Sarah Lide) was born in 1715 in Charles City, Virginia, USA; died on 10 Aug 1784 in Louisa, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richmond married Ann Overton in 1742 in Anna River, St Martins Par., Hanover, VA. Ann (daughter of James Overton and Elizabeth Garland) was born in 1725 in Elk Creek, Louisa County, VA; died on 9 Mar 1795 in Trinity Par., Louisa County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]