 1691 - 1757 (65 years)
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| Name |
Peter Fontaine |
| Birth |
1 Dec 1691 |
Taunton, Somerset, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Immigration |
30 Mar 1716 |
Virginia, USA |
| Death |
Jul 1757 |
Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA |
| Death |
Aug 1759 |
Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA |
| Burial |
Westover Church, Westover Parish, Charles City County, VA |
| Person ID |
I24690 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
James Fontaine, b. 7 Apr 1658, Jenouille-Jaffe Estate, Veaux, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France d. 20 May 1728, Dublin, Ireland (Age 70 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F29822 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Elizabeth Ward Fourreau, b. 1700, Portarlington, Ireland d. Sep 1724, Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA (Age 24 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Mar 1714 |
Dublin, Ireland [1] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F9322 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Family 2 |
Sarah Wade, b. 1715, Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 10 Aug 1784, Louisa, Virginia, USA (Age 69 years) |
| Marriage |
1740 |
Virginia, USA [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Moses Fontaine, b. Jan 1741/42, Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 27 Sep 1796, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 54 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Sarah Fontaine, b. 1744, Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 23 Feb 1802, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (Age 58 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Elizabeth Fontaine, b. 1747, Westover, Charles City, Virginia d. Abt 1804, Henry County, Virginia, USA (Age 57 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Joseph Fontaine, b. 1748, Westover Par., Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 1 Sep 1813, Christian, Kentucky, USA (Age 65 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Abraham Fontaine, b. 9 Apr 1756, Virginia, USA d. 27 Dec 1831, Goochland County, Virginia, USA (Age 75 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Aaron Fontaine, b. 30 Nov 1753, Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA d. Apr 1823, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA (Age 69 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F9323 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| 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."
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| Sources |
- [S5] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (TM), (Name: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996;), Film #: 1903952, Page #: , Ordinance #:.
- [S5] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (TM), (Name: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996;), Film #: 1903794, Page #: , Ordinance #:.
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