The Society is pleased to announce that our materials library is re-open for business!

We have more than 30 items – books, notecards, family charts, and even T-shirts! – available that are rich in details in the Fontaine and Maury family histories.

They are key resources for family history and make great gifts. To see what is available, please visit our library page here on our webpage at:

http://www.fontainemaurysociety.com/library.html

Our annual meeting weekend at historical Belle Grove near Middletown, Virginia, will soon be here! Our joint meeting with the Hite Family Society is the weekend of July 25-27, 2025. As previously posted, we will learn more about the family of Ann Tunstall Maury (1782-1851), wife of Major Isaac Hite Jr. (1758-1836) and descendant of Mary Anne Fontaine Maury (1690-1755).

We ask that everyone planning to attend to complete and submit TWO forms – the first one is on the Hite Family Reunion webpage (link below) that has the registration form, plus a helpful second document with recommendations about nearby lodging. All registration fees should accompany the Hite Registration form and be sent to the address listed on that form.

https://bellegrove.org/calendar/hite-family-reunion

Additionally, please also complete the SECOND registration form posted here – there are no fees required to be sent with this form. This form will let our FMS board know who is attending and how to communicate with them prior to or during the weekend. Please do complete and submit this form per instructions on the form.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Virginia in July!

Our 2025 annual meeting and gathering will be held near Middletown, Virginia, at the Belle Grove plantation the last weekend in July 2025. This is our first visit to this family-related location!

Please be sure you have submitted your contact information on our membership form so that you can receive our newsletters where there will be more details about the weekend.

For now, save the dates of July 25-27, 2025.  

Please remember to join or renew your membership for a modest $20 per household annually. 

Registration is now open for our annual meeting weekend scheduled for September 20-23, 2024, in the Hudson River Valley, New York.

Our focus will be on the family of the Reverend Mytton Maury and their connection to the Draper and Ludlow families.

Please download the registration form and submit it by August 18, 2024.

Remember to also make your hotel reservations; details are included on the registration form.

We look forward to seeing you in New York!

The hotel for our 2024 annual meeting is the Hampton Inn and Suites 160 Corporate Blvd, Yonkers, NY  Make your hotel reservations directly with hotel at 1-914-377-1144 and ask for the Fontaine-Maury Society group rate or book your room with this link.: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/fontainemaurysociety/ 

The rate is good until August 18, 2024. Standard double queen or king rooms $149.00 per night plus 14.88% for occupancy fee and state tax, breakfast included. Parking is $12.00 per night plus tax.

Our annual meeting dates and planned activities as announced in the recent winter newsletter will remain the same, September 20-22. This is one full month earlier than we usually meet. Our business meeting will be held Friday, September 20 at the hotel. Our Saturday activities will include a group visit to the Hastings on Hudson Historical Society and Draper Museum, lunch at and site visit to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church of the Highlands in Cold Spring, NY and a Hudson River cruise before returning to our hotel for our annual banquet. The registration form for the weekend will be available in early May. Optional activities are planned for Friday, September 20th, if you arrive by Thursday, September 19th. The registration form will have all of the details.

Our focus family is the family of the Reverend Mytton Maury and his children. The links between the Maury, Draper and Ludlow families will be explored. If you are not receiving the newsletters which provides more detailed information, please consider submitting your contact information so that one can be emailed to you. Click on “forms” at the top of the page, follow the instruction on the form and become a member.

Mary Borjon, FMS President

Our annual meeting weekend will soon be here, so please get your completed registration form submitted. We have updated the form to reflect the revised deadline – of by August 29, 2023 – to sign up for the Montpelier tour.

We must be in receipt of your completed registration by September 5, 2023.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

The Society is recruiting a new librarian to join our team of volunteers. The position is to process purchase orders for the small collection of items that we sell. It involves maintaining inventory, processing orders (shipping them and then submitting records to the Society’s treasurer), and attending our annual meeting weekends where our attendees can review and purchase items. There are no out-of-pocket expenses as the librarian will use a Society debit card.

About the Position

The position is one of two of librarians. Brian Nilsson will continue his long-time role as librarian to handle research questions.

Please Seriously Consider Volunteering

The physical maintenance of the library requires some space for storage of materials, the replenishment of materials that can be copied or made available electronically, the fulfillment of orders as they come in and the fiscal reporting for incurred expenses (copying, postage, purchases) to the treasurer. It will not incur any personal expenses.

Because research and response and maintenance of the physical library are equally important, we have decided to label both positions as Librarian and each has its own position description.

Please contact Mary Borjon at mlborjon@hotmail.com or 707-279-1050 if you would consider this position. It takes all of us to do some part in making our society function. This Library is unique and an important component of our society.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Society’s annual meeting weekend October 13-15, 2023, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The keystone event of the weekend is the donation of the 254-year-old Bible of Consul General James Maury (1746-1840) to Monticello. Maury and Thomas Jefferson were lifelong friends.

Please print the registration form, complete it, and send it to the address provided as soon as practical but to be received no later than September 5, 2023, the date by which we must finalize our bus contract.

There are several activities that have separate deadlines. These are all listed on the registration form. These other deadlines are:

– August 29, 2023 to attend presentation and tour at President James Madison’s home, Montpelier;
– September 10, 2023, to attend the lunch at Michie Tavern; and
– September 11, 2023, hotel reservation at he Holiday Inn Express in Ruckersville, Virginia, to receive our special group rate.

There are only a few rooms left so recommend making your reservation as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you all in Charlottesville! We’re told that Thomas Jefferson may visit us there!

As announced earlier in the year on our website, our Facebook page and in our winter newsletter, blocking hotel rooms anywhere in the Charlottesville area in October presented us with significant challenges. To date we have booked 20 of the 20 blocked rooms which allows us to block another ten only. After these last ten rooms are booked by members attending our annual meeting, there will be no other blocked rooms available at this hotel for our negotiated rate and our dates. The Holiday Inn Express in Ruckersville is fully booked as predicted. If you are planning on staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Ruckersville, please make your reservations now. The phone number is 1-434-985-1854 and the on line link is https://www.hiexpress.com/redirect?path=rates…

You will note that initially we could only have double queens at this rate. The ten recently blocked rooms available to us now contain 5 Kings and 5 double queens.
If you have any challenges with booking a room, please contact me at 707-279-1050 California time.