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1. germanna.org › 2013/09/10 › john-fontaine-and-theJohn Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part III

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   Sep 10, 2013 · For too long, John Fontaine has merely been a mysterious character who happened to keep a journal of the Blue Ridge expedition—a man who just pops in and out of the Germanna story with no further explanation. We have never read about John Fontaine the man, why he was here, and what he did.

2. germanna.org › 2013/09/10 › john-fontaine-and-theJohn Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part I

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   Sep 10, 2013 · On June 3rd, he reached Wicomico in Northumberland County nearing the Chesapeake Bay. He would have reached Wicomico first, and then Point Comfort. On Saturday June 4th they reached Yorktown and he says “we landed at Gloucester and there we supped and lay that night.

3. en.wikisource.org › Journal_of_John_FontaineMemoirs of a Huguenot Family/Journal of John Fontaine

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   Mar 23, 2016 · John Fontaine. (Journalist "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe") JOURNAL OF JOHN FONTAINE. The Journal [1] commences on the 16th September, 1710, when he obtained an ensign's commission in Lord Shaw's regiment of foot. He was rather young to enter the service, only seventeen years old.

4. germanna.org › 2013/09/10 › john-fontaine-and-theJohn Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part II

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   Sep 10, 2013 · The first was in the spring on a trip to Fort Christanna in Brunswick County, another of Spotswood’s outposts. This fort was equipped with five cannon and a school for Indians. Its primary purpose was to protect the southwestern frontier and attempt to educate and Christianize the savage Indians.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_FontaineJohn Fontaine - Wikipedia

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   John Fontaine (1792–1866) was an American plantation owner and politician. He served as the first Mayor of Columbus, Georgia, from 1836 to 1837. He defended Columbus during the Creek War of 1836.

6. www.fontainemaurysociety.com › fontainehistoryThe Fontaine-Maury Society

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   John Fontaine’s journal has provided historians with a rich, interesting, and valuable historical narrative of colonial Virginia. Excerpts from his journal have also been used by path-making historians like Marcus Rediker, whose work, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea , used excerpts from Fontaine’s trans-oceanic voyage on The Dove as ...

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   Who is John Fontaine?

   • For too long, John Fontaine has merely been a mysterious character who happened to keep a journal of the Blue Ridge expedition—a man who just pops in and out of the Germanna story with no further explanation. We have never read about John Fontaine the man, why he was here, and what he did.

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   When did John Fontaine finish his work in Virginia?

   • By 1718, John Fontaine had finished his work in Virginia. On July 17th of that year he “made over the deeds of the land to my brother James, in order to go for England.” That is his last journal entry in Virginia.

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   Did John Fontaine fail?

   • Unless otherwise noted, the balance of this account comes from James Porter Alexander’s The Journal of John Fontaine. His father wrote in his autobiography that Fontaine’s primary objective for his voyage to Virginia was to find suitable land to set up a plantation. In this he did not fail.

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   Where did John Fontaine live?

   • He later moved to Northumberland County where he died in 1746. On 27 March 1718 (n.s.) John Fontaine received a letter from his brother-in-law Matthew Maury, husband of his sister Mary Ann, whom he had married in Dublin in 1716. The letter said he was staying at Capt. Eskridge’s in Westmoreland County, and would wait for him there.

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8. books.google.com › books › aboutThe Journal of John Fontaine - Google Books

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   John Fontaine was born in 1693 at Taunton, Somerset, England, the son of James Fontaine (1658-1728) and Anne Elizabeth Boursiquoit Fontaine, French Huguenots. His family migrated to Ireland...