PETER FONTAINE
(1691-1757)

Ancestors:  Father was Jacques Fontaine (1658-1728), a Huguenot minister who fled France in 1685 and went to England with his fiancee Anne Elisabeth Boursiquot and where most of his children were born.  They later moved to Ireland where they became captives of pirates for a few months in 1708.  His last years were spent teaching in Dublin.  Four of his sons emigrated to America but kept in touch by letters with other siblings in England and Wales.

Peter Fontaine was born in England and was educated at Trinity College in Dublin.  He arrived in America in October 1716 and was a pastor in churches of Weyanoke, Martin Brandon, Wallingford, and Jamestown.  In 1720, he became pastor of an area including 233 families in about 300 square miles surrounding the parishes of Westover, Weyanoke, and Wallingford.  He was the mainstay of William Byrd's Westover Parish and accompanied Byrd on his expedition to survey the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina in 1728.

Descendants:  many through his son Peter, Jr., other Fontaines and Roses.

Descent:  Peter Fontaine (1691-1757) m. Elizabeth Fourreau (1700-)
                 Peter Fontaine, Jr. (1724-1773) m. Elizabeth Winston (1734-)
                                        Double Descent
William Fontaine (1753-1810)                           Sarah Elizabeth Fontaine (1755-1788)
  m. Anne Morris (1776-1852)                            m. Charles Rose (1747-1802)
 Sarah Rose Fontaine (1796-1863)                     Alexander Fontaine Rose (1780-1831)
  m. Alexander Fontaine Rose (1780-1831)
  Edmund Fontaine Rose (1817-1893) m. Betty Murray (1834-1863)
    Annie Brown Rose (1848-1900) m. Thomas Julian Skinker II (1849-1944)

References.

Byrd, W. 1967. Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. New York.

Fontaine, J.  1722.  Memoirs of the Reverend Jaques Fontaine, 1658-1728.  D. W. Ressinger (ed.)., London, 1992.

Maury, Anne F. 1941. Intimate Virginiana: A Century of Maury Travels by Land and Sea.  Richmond.

Ragland, Charles J.  1999. Ancestors and Descendants of the Reverend Peter Fontaine (1691-1759) of Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia. Part I. 335 pp.  Part II. 188 pp.  Fontaine/Maury Society.

Ressinger, D. 1997. This Side the Water.  A Huguenot Family in Virginia.  Presented at Huguenot Conference in Charleston, SC.  Fontaine/Maury Society.  51 pp.