Thanks for responding; you made me clear the cobwebs from my brain. I blundered! Just didn't thoroughly read what I already found.
1. Francis Fontaine Sr b. 16 Sept 1697 Ireland; d. 1749 VA; occupation in VA: Rector; married 1] abt 1720 England to Mary Glanisson
....2. Francis Fontaine Jr b. 1721 NC; d. 1783 NC; disinherited 1749; married Ann Jamima(h) Jasper
.......3. Francis Fontaine, III, b. 1746 NC; d. ?1783 SC; married
Francis Sr married 2] Susannah Brush
Notes from the Records of York County, Some Wills and Other Records, p. 426:
Francis Fontaine, "minister of York Hampton Parish in York County, Virginia." Will proved in York County, March 19, 1749. He names his children, Francis, Jr., the eldes, whom he disinherits, Mary, John, Thomas, James Maury, youngest son, to whom he gives all his books and manuscripts, and Judith Barber Fontaine. Wife Susannah Fontaine. His books were contained in "one large book case, one small do, 1 double book case of black walnut."
A letter written by Mary Ann Fontaine Maury in Sept 1745, taken from "Memoirs of a Huguenot Family", was a sister to Francis Fontaine Sr.
"...I wish it lay in my power to give you as pleasing a description of brother Francis, but to my great grief I
cannot express the dismal state of his family. As for his first wife she was, I believe, a good Christian, and
very careful to instil good principles in her children; but she was not a fit wife for this country, so by that
means, and by her ignorance of country business, my brother was almost ruined in his estate. She left one
girl and three boys, and if it had pleased God to have taken them with her, it would have been a great
blessing; for this woman he has married is a mighty housewife, but a cruel woman, and she has the entire
dominion over her husband, so he has been induced to cast off all paternal duty of his first children. His
eldest son Francis that was a boy of good parts, and was in the College, he bound to a carpenter, and
when he was sick and in necessity he had no bowels of compassion for him. They are going to bind John to
a carpenter. God in his great mercy hath lately taken his youngest son, named Thomas, from under her
tyranny. As for poor Molly, the negro women she brought with her are more indulgently used than she is.
My brother has a boy and girl by her, and he spares no pains with the boy, who is about seven years old,
who is a wonder for his age, while the others are castaways.
I did my best to get the poor girl away from her, but she was too serviceable.
I assure, dear sister, it has been a great grief to me to see one I loved so well, one in this station, a
shepherd to guide his flock, that he should be so inhuman to his own flesh and blood. He is grown an
enemy to all our families here, to ours especially, because I reminded him of his duty to his children, for
which good will of mine we are quite rejected, as are all others that do no like of her doings. She is his
only lawgiver, a terrible exchange for that of his Maker.
This is the melancholy state of his family, which I pary God in his own good time to rectify. I desire you
will show this relation to my brother John. The Lord preserve us all in a due sense of our duty in our
several stations, so that no considerations whatsoever may induce us to offend our maker, but that we may
work out our salvation with fear and trembling, which is the hearty prayer of her who remains with all
sincerity, dear sister,..."
Thanks again.