{"id":157,"date":"2018-07-17T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T01:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/?p=157"},"modified":"2018-07-17T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T01:23:38","slug":"original-francis-fontaine-1721-1785-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/announcements\/original-francis-fontaine-1721-1785-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Francis Fontaine (1721-1785) Signature!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 14 August 1750, Francis &#8220;Frank&#8221; Fontaine (1721-1785) witnessed the will of Elias Dupee in Newbern, North Carolina. Frank would have been 28 years old. He appeared in the Craven County Court of Pleas &amp; Quarter Sessions almost four years later, on Thursday, 14 February 1754, testifying that he had witnessed Elias sign his will. The attached photo is of his original signature on the 1750 will, found in the North Carolina Department of Archives and History.\u00a0 An exciting find of a document handled by an ancestor and that contains an original signature!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Fontaine signature\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature-300x118.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature-768x302.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature-1024x403.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1750-08-14-Elias-Dupee-Will-p-3-Francis-Fontaine-signature.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Fontaine signature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 14 August 1750, Francis &#8220;Frank&#8221; Fontaine (1721-1785) witnessed the will of Elias Dupee in Newbern, North Carolina. Frank would have been 28 years old. He appeared in the Craven County Court of Pleas &amp; Quarter Sessions almost four years later, on Thursday, 14 February 1754, testifying that he had witnessed Elias sign his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/announcements\/original-francis-fontaine-1721-1785-signature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Original Francis Fontaine (1721-1785) Signature!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}