Peter Fontaine (1691–1757) was a clergyman at Westover Church, Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia.
Born
1691
Died
1757
Overview
Peter Fontaine (1691–1757) was a clergyman at Westover Church, Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia.
Family
His parents, of noble French Huguenot extraction, were forced to leave for England, later Great Britain, and then Ireland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes with the Edict of Fontainebleau in October 1685. His father Jacques de la Fontaine (later James Fontaine) was also a Reverend, while his mother was Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot. He had three older siblings.
His daughter Magdalen (who was ten-years-old) was raped and murder by Roman Catholic soldiers, by orders of the clergy to not suffer anyone of the Protestant faith alone in all of the Piedmontese valleys.
