{"id":81,"date":"2016-10-17T02:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T02:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-10-17T02:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T02:31:45","slug":"successful-weekend-in-hanover-county-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/announcements\/successful-weekend-in-hanover-county-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Weekend in Hanover County, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had over 70 attendees at this year&#8217;s annual meeting weekend. \u00a0 We stayed in Ashland, Virginia, a short distance to a number of important sites in the family of Peter Fontaine Jr. \u00a0We visited the original land that Peter Jr. bought in 1759 with the house Rock Castle and received a lecture on 14 years of excavations of that house. \u00a0We toured Rock Castle II, better known today as the Fontaine Farm, at the house built by Peter&#8217;s grandson James Fontaine around 1835. \u00a0It was this house that was ransacked by Union troops who threw the possessions onto a bonfire, including Jaques Fontaine&#8217;s 1720s manuscript that was saved by a Union officer. \u00a0We also visited Fork Church where Peter&#8217;s grandchildren&#8217;s generation and later generations attended church. \u00a0We also visited Beaverdam Plantation, bought by Peter Jr.&#8217;s son William and where the Fontaine Family Cemetery is located. \u00a0We will add more details of our weekend soon! \u00a0The photos below are descendants of Mary Anne Fontaine Maury (1690-1755), the Reverend Peter Fontaine (1691-1757), and the Reverend Francis Fontaine (1697-1749).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-16-Mary-Anne-Fontaine-Maury-1690-1755-Descendants.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-82\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" src=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-16-Mary-Anne-Fontaine-Maury-1690-1755-Descendants-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"2016-10-16 Mary Anne Fontaine Maury 1690-1755 Descendants\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-16-Mary-Anne-Fontaine-Maury-1690-1755-Descendants-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-16-Mary-Anne-Fontaine-Maury-1690-1755-Descendants-768x503.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-16-Mary-Anne-Fontaine-Maury-1690-1755-Descendants-1024x671.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Peter-Fontaine-1691-1757-Descendants.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Peter-Fontaine-1691-1757-Descendants-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Descendants of the Rev. Peter Fontaine\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Peter-Fontaine-1691-1757-Descendants-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Peter-Fontaine-1691-1757-Descendants-768x450.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Peter-Fontaine-1691-1757-Descendants-1024x600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Francis-Fontaine-1697-1749-Descendants.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84\" src=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Francis-Fontaine-1697-1749-Descendants-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Descendants of the Rev. Francis Fontaine\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Francis-Fontaine-1697-1749-Descendants-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Francis-Fontaine-1697-1749-Descendants-768x471.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-15-Francis-Fontaine-1697-1749-Descendants-1024x628.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had over 70 attendees at this year&#8217;s annual meeting weekend. \u00a0 We stayed in Ashland, Virginia, a short distance to a number of important sites in the family of Peter Fontaine Jr. \u00a0We visited the original land that Peter Jr. bought in 1759 with the house Rock Castle and received a lecture on 14 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/announcements\/successful-weekend-in-hanover-county-virginia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Successful Weekend in Hanover County, Virginia<\/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\/81"}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fontainemaurysociety.com\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}