p 199 - JOHN FONTAINE, 1693-17—
John Fontaine was a member of a French Huguenot family which was well known in Virginia. The son of the Rev. James Fontaine, he came to Virginia in 1714 as a young man of twenty-one after service in Spain as an ensign in the British army. In 1716 he accompanied Governor Alexander Spotswood on the expedition into the Shenandoah Valley. The journal which he kept of that expedition follows. He subsequently returned to England. His brother, the Rev. Peter Fontaine, was chaplain to the Commission which ran the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina in 1728-1729. A younger brother, the Rev. Francis Fontaine, was minister of the French settlement at Manakintown, Virginia, in 1720-1722, professor of Oriental languages at the College of
William and Mary in 1729, and rector of Yorkhampton Parish, Virginia, from 1722 until his death in 1749. John Fontaine's journal was published by Ann Maury in 1853 in the volume, Memoirs of a Huguenot Family: Translated and compiled from the original autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine, and other family manuscripts; comprising an original journal of travels in Virginia, New York, etc., in 1715 and 1716.
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