Joseph Fontaine born in 1748, Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia was the son of the Reverend Peter Fontaine and his second wife Sarah Wade. He was an American Revolutionary patriot. He could not serve as a soldier due to a club foot so instead he donated goods to the Revolutionary Soldiers.
Joseph was apprenticed as a cabinet maker and in 1781, inherited 600 acres in Halifax County, Virginia.
In 1803, Joseph and Mary Goode Fontaine joined a wagon train with some of their Halifax Virginia neighbors and followed the Cumberland Gap to Christian County in southwestern Kentucky. Mary died on their farm located on the North Fork of Little River near Wallonia in Trigg County on August 12, 1812 and Joseph followed her on September 1, 1813.
Joseph's father REV. PETER FONTAINE (1691-1759) was born in Taunton in Somerset, England on December 1, 1691, to the Reverend Jaques Fontaine and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, French Huguenots (Protestants) who had fled from France after the Revocation of Nantes. Although Peter's first few years were spent in Taunton, in 1694 the family moved to Cork, Ireland, and remained there until 1699. They then went to live in Bear Haven on the remote and underpopulated southwestern coast of Ireland. In this home Peter grew to manhood and experienced a number of adventures, but none more exciting than the French privateers' attack on the "Sod Fort" in 1708 along with some of their Irish Catholic neighbors.. A full account of this episode is contained in his father's "Memoirs," Following this attack and the general destruction which resulted, Peter's family, with the exception of the oldest son, moved to Dublin in 1709. His father opened a school there, while the rest of the family settled down to life in the city.
Peter married first Elizabeth Fourreau in 1714. Elizabeth died about 1724. He didn't marry his second wife Sarah Wade until 1739.
From the book Huguenot Emigration to Virginia: "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."
"In the year 1724, the Rev. Peter Fontaine gives an account of himself and his parish. He came into it nine years before that time,-- had officiated in Wallingford, Weynoake, Martins Brandon, and Jamestown, before the new arrangement. He had now three churches in Westover parish, the upper or Westover Church, and the lower church near the Chickahominy, formerly in Wallingford parish. The length of this parish was thirty miles; the number of families two hundred and thirty three, of communicants seventy-five. He was as attentive to the instruction of children and servants as circumstances would allow… He lived in his own house and his own farm. His salary, besides prerequisites, was from fifty to sixty pounds. Mr. Fontaine is the same minister that accompanied Colonel Byrd on that most laborious and dangerous expedition for running the dividing-line between Virginia and North Carolina. Colonel Byrd evidently held him in the highest esteem, as doubtless did all his parishioners. We find him still living in their affections and laboring among them in the year 1757. He died in the month of July of that year. After expressing a firm trust in a joyful resurrection through the blood of a merciful Redeemer, he concludes his will by saying, ‘My will and desire is, that I may have no public funeral, but that my corpse may be accompanied by a few of my nearest neighbors; that no liquors be given to make any of the company drunk, --many instances of which I have seen, to the greatest scandal of the Christian religion and abuse of so solemn an ordinance. I desire none of my family to go in mourning for me.'
Concerning this good man and his family, something more must be said. . . . Mr. Peter Fontaine was one of six children (five sons and one daughter) of two pious and valiant Huguenots, who fled from France to England. Giving their children a good education, especially as to religion, they committed "them to the providence of a covenant God to seek their fortune in the wide world." All of them came to America, though two of them – Moses and John-returned to England. The daughter Mary Ann, married Matthew Maury, from Gascony, and coming to America, became the mother of a numerous posterity. James Fontaine settled in King William as a farmer, and is also the ancestor of many most respectable families in Virginia and elsewhere. Francis was the minister of whom we have already spoken in our article on York-Hampton. Peter is the worthy person of whom we are now speaking, and who also his descendants spread over our own and other States. Nor are the names of Fontaine and Maury absent from the lists of Episcopal clergy. Of Mr. Peter Fontaine, who spent his whole ministry of about forty years in the county of Charles City, with the exception of a short time at Jamestown and Wallingford parish, it becomes us to add something more. His letters to various relatives and one of his sermons, furnish us with the means. It was the pious custom of the Fontaines to assemble annually, and hold a solemn religious thanksgiving in commemoration of their deliverance from persecution in France, and remarkable preservation when attacked by French privateers in the North of Ireland. I have before me a sermon on one of those occasions, preached by Peter Fontaine. After a suitable prayer, which is prefaced to it, he takes for his text that passage from Romans,-‘That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." After a general consideration of the duty enjoined by the text, he applies it to their particular case. Alluding to the former, he says:
‘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 in 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 latest posterity, withdrew him from thence, and was the occasion that his confinement was more tolerable.'
He exhorts them in the close of the sermon never to forsake their annual meeting in remembrance of their parent's virtues and sufferings, and the wonderful deliverance of God. ‘Would to God,' he says, ‘that you would make it your business to 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 upon them; for God is not like Jacob, who hath only one blessing in store. He hath millions of millions to bestow on those who love and fear him.'"
Joseph was apprenticed as a cabinet maker and in 1781, inherited 600 acres in Halifax County, Virginia.
In 1803, Joseph and Mary Goode Fontaine joined a wagon train with some of their Halifax Virginia neighbors and followed the Cumberland Gap to Christian County in southwestern Kentucky. Mary died on their farm located on the North Fork of Little River near Wallonia in Trigg County on August 12, 1812 and Joseph followed her on September 1, 1813.
Joseph's father REV. PETER FONTAINE (1691-1759) was born in Taunton in Somerset, England on December 1, 1691, to the Reverend Jaques Fontaine and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, French Huguenots (Protestants) who had fled from France after the Revocation of Nantes. Although Peter's first few years were spent in Taunton, in 1694 the family moved to Cork, Ireland, and remained there until 1699. They then went to live in Bear Haven on the remote and underpopulated southwestern coast of Ireland. In this home Peter grew to manhood and experienced a number of adventures, but none more exciting than the French privateers' attack on the "Sod Fort" in 1708 along with some of their Irish Catholic neighbors.. A full account of this episode is contained in his father's "Memoirs," Following this attack and the general destruction which resulted, Peter's family, with the exception of the oldest son, moved to Dublin in 1709. His father opened a school there, while the rest of the family settled down to life in the city.
Peter married first Elizabeth Fourreau in 1714. Elizabeth died about 1724. He didn't marry his second wife Sarah Wade until 1739.
From the book Huguenot Emigration to Virginia: "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."
"In the year 1724, the Rev. Peter Fontaine gives an account of himself and his parish. He came into it nine years before that time,-- had officiated in Wallingford, Weynoake, Martins Brandon, and Jamestown, before the new arrangement. He had now three churches in Westover parish, the upper or Westover Church, and the lower church near the Chickahominy, formerly in Wallingford parish. The length of this parish was thirty miles; the number of families two hundred and thirty three, of communicants seventy-five. He was as attentive to the instruction of children and servants as circumstances would allow… He lived in his own house and his own farm. His salary, besides prerequisites, was from fifty to sixty pounds. Mr. Fontaine is the same minister that accompanied Colonel Byrd on that most laborious and dangerous expedition for running the dividing-line between Virginia and North Carolina. Colonel Byrd evidently held him in the highest esteem, as doubtless did all his parishioners. We find him still living in their affections and laboring among them in the year 1757. He died in the month of July of that year. After expressing a firm trust in a joyful resurrection through the blood of a merciful Redeemer, he concludes his will by saying, ‘My will and desire is, that I may have no public funeral, but that my corpse may be accompanied by a few of my nearest neighbors; that no liquors be given to make any of the company drunk, --many instances of which I have seen, to the greatest scandal of the Christian religion and abuse of so solemn an ordinance. I desire none of my family to go in mourning for me.'
Concerning this good man and his family, something more must be said. . . . Mr. Peter Fontaine was one of six children (five sons and one daughter) of two pious and valiant Huguenots, who fled from France to England. Giving their children a good education, especially as to religion, they committed "them to the providence of a covenant God to seek their fortune in the wide world." All of them came to America, though two of them – Moses and John-returned to England. The daughter Mary Ann, married Matthew Maury, from Gascony, and coming to America, became the mother of a numerous posterity. James Fontaine settled in King William as a farmer, and is also the ancestor of many most respectable families in Virginia and elsewhere. Francis was the minister of whom we have already spoken in our article on York-Hampton. Peter is the worthy person of whom we are now speaking, and who also his descendants spread over our own and other States. Nor are the names of Fontaine and Maury absent from the lists of Episcopal clergy. Of Mr. Peter Fontaine, who spent his whole ministry of about forty years in the county of Charles City, with the exception of a short time at Jamestown and Wallingford parish, it becomes us to add something more. His letters to various relatives and one of his sermons, furnish us with the means. It was the pious custom of the Fontaines to assemble annually, and hold a solemn religious thanksgiving in commemoration of their deliverance from persecution in France, and remarkable preservation when attacked by French privateers in the North of Ireland. I have before me a sermon on one of those occasions, preached by Peter Fontaine. After a suitable prayer, which is prefaced to it, he takes for his text that passage from Romans,-‘That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." After a general consideration of the duty enjoined by the text, he applies it to their particular case. Alluding to the former, he says:
‘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 in 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 latest posterity, withdrew him from thence, and was the occasion that his confinement was more tolerable.'
He exhorts them in the close of the sermon never to forsake their annual meeting in remembrance of their parent's virtues and sufferings, and the wonderful deliverance of God. ‘Would to God,' he says, ‘that you would make it your business to 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 upon them; for God is not like Jacob, who hath only one blessing in store. He hath millions of millions to bestow on those who love and fear him.'"
Joseph Fontaine born in 1748, Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia was the son of the Reverend Peter Fontaine and his second wife Sarah Wade. He was an American Revolutionary patriot. He could not serve as a soldier due to a club foot so instead he donated goods to the Revolutionary Soldiers.
Joseph was apprenticed as a cabinet maker and in 1781, inherited 600 acres in Halifax County, Virginia.
In 1803, Joseph and Mary Goode Fontaine joined a wagon train with some of their Halifax Virginia neighbors and followed the Cumberland Gap to Christian County in southwestern Kentucky. Mary died on their farm located on the North Fork of Little River near Wallonia in Trigg County on August 12, 1812 and Joseph followed her on September 1, 1813.
Joseph's father REV. PETER FONTAINE (1691-1759) was born in Taunton in Somerset, England on December 1, 1691, to the Reverend Jaques Fontaine and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, French Huguenots (Protestants) who had fled from France after the Revocation of Nantes. Although Peter's first few years were spent in Taunton, in 1694 the family moved to Cork, Ireland, and remained there until 1699. They then went to live in Bear Haven on the remote and underpopulated southwestern coast of Ireland. In this home Peter grew to manhood and experienced a number of adventures, but none more exciting than the French privateers' attack on the "Sod Fort" in 1708 along with some of their Irish Catholic neighbors.. A full account of this episode is contained in his father's "Memoirs," Following this attack and the general destruction which resulted, Peter's family, with the exception of the oldest son, moved to Dublin in 1709. His father opened a school there, while the rest of the family settled down to life in the city.
Peter married first Elizabeth Fourreau in 1714. Elizabeth died about 1724. He didn't marry his second wife Sarah Wade until 1739.
From the book Huguenot Emigration to Virginia: "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."
"In the year 1724, the Rev. Peter Fontaine gives an account of himself and his parish. He came into it nine years before that time,-- had officiated in Wallingford, Weynoake, Martins Brandon, and Jamestown, before the new arrangement. He had now three churches in Westover parish, the upper or Westover Church, and the lower church near the Chickahominy, formerly in Wallingford parish. The length of this parish was thirty miles; the number of families two hundred and thirty three, of communicants seventy-five. He was as attentive to the instruction of children and servants as circumstances would allow… He lived in his own house and his own farm. His salary, besides prerequisites, was from fifty to sixty pounds. Mr. Fontaine is the same minister that accompanied Colonel Byrd on that most laborious and dangerous expedition for running the dividing-line between Virginia and North Carolina. Colonel Byrd evidently held him in the highest esteem, as doubtless did all his parishioners. We find him still living in their affections and laboring among them in the year 1757. He died in the month of July of that year. After expressing a firm trust in a joyful resurrection through the blood of a merciful Redeemer, he concludes his will by saying, ‘My will and desire is, that I may have no public funeral, but that my corpse may be accompanied by a few of my nearest neighbors; that no liquors be given to make any of the company drunk, --many instances of which I have seen, to the greatest scandal of the Christian religion and abuse of so solemn an ordinance. I desire none of my family to go in mourning for me.'
Concerning this good man and his family, something more must be said. . . . Mr. Peter Fontaine was one of six children (five sons and one daughter) of two pious and valiant Huguenots, who fled from France to England. Giving their children a good education, especially as to religion, they committed "them to the providence of a covenant God to seek their fortune in the wide world." All of them came to America, though two of them – Moses and John-returned to England. The daughter Mary Ann, married Matthew Maury, from Gascony, and coming to America, became the mother of a numerous posterity. James Fontaine settled in King William as a farmer, and is also the ancestor of many most respectable families in Virginia and elsewhere. Francis was the minister of whom we have already spoken in our article on York-Hampton. Peter is the worthy person of whom we are now speaking, and who also his descendants spread over our own and other States. Nor are the names of Fontaine and Maury absent from the lists of Episcopal clergy. Of Mr. Peter Fontaine, who spent his whole ministry of about forty years in the county of Charles City, with the exception of a short time at Jamestown and Wallingford parish, it becomes us to add something more. His letters to various relatives and one of his sermons, furnish us with the means. It was the pious custom of the Fontaines to assemble annually, and hold a solemn religious thanksgiving in commemoration of their deliverance from persecution in France, and remarkable preservation when attacked by French privateers in the North of Ireland. I have before me a sermon on one of those occasions, preached by Peter Fontaine. After a suitable prayer, which is prefaced to it, he takes for his text that passage from Romans,-‘That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." After a general consideration of the duty enjoined by the text, he applies it to their particular case. Alluding to the former, he says:
‘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 in 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 latest posterity, withdrew him from thence, and was the occasion that his confinement was more tolerable.'
He exhorts them in the close of the sermon never to forsake their annual meeting in remembrance of their parent's virtues and sufferings, and the wonderful deliverance of God. ‘Would to God,' he says, ‘that you would make it your business to 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 upon them; for God is not like Jacob, who hath only one blessing in store. He hath millions of millions to bestow on those who love and fear him.'"
Joseph was apprenticed as a cabinet maker and in 1781, inherited 600 acres in Halifax County, Virginia.
In 1803, Joseph and Mary Goode Fontaine joined a wagon train with some of their Halifax Virginia neighbors and followed the Cumberland Gap to Christian County in southwestern Kentucky. Mary died on their farm located on the North Fork of Little River near Wallonia in Trigg County on August 12, 1812 and Joseph followed her on September 1, 1813.
Joseph's father REV. PETER FONTAINE (1691-1759) was born in Taunton in Somerset, England on December 1, 1691, to the Reverend Jaques Fontaine and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, French Huguenots (Protestants) who had fled from France after the Revocation of Nantes. Although Peter's first few years were spent in Taunton, in 1694 the family moved to Cork, Ireland, and remained there until 1699. They then went to live in Bear Haven on the remote and underpopulated southwestern coast of Ireland. In this home Peter grew to manhood and experienced a number of adventures, but none more exciting than the French privateers' attack on the "Sod Fort" in 1708 along with some of their Irish Catholic neighbors.. A full account of this episode is contained in his father's "Memoirs," Following this attack and the general destruction which resulted, Peter's family, with the exception of the oldest son, moved to Dublin in 1709. His father opened a school there, while the rest of the family settled down to life in the city.
Peter married first Elizabeth Fourreau in 1714. Elizabeth died about 1724. He didn't marry his second wife Sarah Wade until 1739.
From the book Huguenot Emigration to Virginia: "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."
"In the year 1724, the Rev. Peter Fontaine gives an account of himself and his parish. He came into it nine years before that time,-- had officiated in Wallingford, Weynoake, Martins Brandon, and Jamestown, before the new arrangement. He had now three churches in Westover parish, the upper or Westover Church, and the lower church near the Chickahominy, formerly in Wallingford parish. The length of this parish was thirty miles; the number of families two hundred and thirty three, of communicants seventy-five. He was as attentive to the instruction of children and servants as circumstances would allow… He lived in his own house and his own farm. His salary, besides prerequisites, was from fifty to sixty pounds. Mr. Fontaine is the same minister that accompanied Colonel Byrd on that most laborious and dangerous expedition for running the dividing-line between Virginia and North Carolina. Colonel Byrd evidently held him in the highest esteem, as doubtless did all his parishioners. We find him still living in their affections and laboring among them in the year 1757. He died in the month of July of that year. After expressing a firm trust in a joyful resurrection through the blood of a merciful Redeemer, he concludes his will by saying, ‘My will and desire is, that I may have no public funeral, but that my corpse may be accompanied by a few of my nearest neighbors; that no liquors be given to make any of the company drunk, --many instances of which I have seen, to the greatest scandal of the Christian religion and abuse of so solemn an ordinance. I desire none of my family to go in mourning for me.'
Concerning this good man and his family, something more must be said. . . . Mr. Peter Fontaine was one of six children (five sons and one daughter) of two pious and valiant Huguenots, who fled from France to England. Giving their children a good education, especially as to religion, they committed "them to the providence of a covenant God to seek their fortune in the wide world." All of them came to America, though two of them – Moses and John-returned to England. The daughter Mary Ann, married Matthew Maury, from Gascony, and coming to America, became the mother of a numerous posterity. James Fontaine settled in King William as a farmer, and is also the ancestor of many most respectable families in Virginia and elsewhere. Francis was the minister of whom we have already spoken in our article on York-Hampton. Peter is the worthy person of whom we are now speaking, and who also his descendants spread over our own and other States. Nor are the names of Fontaine and Maury absent from the lists of Episcopal clergy. Of Mr. Peter Fontaine, who spent his whole ministry of about forty years in the county of Charles City, with the exception of a short time at Jamestown and Wallingford parish, it becomes us to add something more. His letters to various relatives and one of his sermons, furnish us with the means. It was the pious custom of the Fontaines to assemble annually, and hold a solemn religious thanksgiving in commemoration of their deliverance from persecution in France, and remarkable preservation when attacked by French privateers in the North of Ireland. I have before me a sermon on one of those occasions, preached by Peter Fontaine. After a suitable prayer, which is prefaced to it, he takes for his text that passage from Romans,-‘That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." After a general consideration of the duty enjoined by the text, he applies it to their particular case. Alluding to the former, he says:
‘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 in 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 latest posterity, withdrew him from thence, and was the occasion that his confinement was more tolerable.'
He exhorts them in the close of the sermon never to forsake their annual meeting in remembrance of their parent's virtues and sufferings, and the wonderful deliverance of God. ‘Would to God,' he says, ‘that you would make it your business to 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 upon them; for God is not like Jacob, who hath only one blessing in store. He hath millions of millions to bestow on those who love and fear him.'"
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