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"ORIGINAL SURVEY OF TRACT GRANTED TO JOHN CONNOLY BY LORD DUNMORE, OF VIRGINIA, IN "FINCASTLE COUNTY," DECEMBER 14, 1773, UNDER THE PROCLAMATION OF KING GEORGE 111., OF 1763 -- "FOR MILITARY SERVICES."


"Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both looking and feeling queer -- "

Hardly can be held to apply to Fontaine Ferry park which under the management of Col. Harry A. Bilger, soon will open for the summer season of 1914. It is probable that few persons recall that this is the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the famous fountain that gave the celebrated amusement resort its name and prestige. An article prepared by Charles Thurston who is one of the descendants of the Fontaines, tells some interesting incidents in connection with the origin of the place.

Mr. Thurston says:
"Col. Aaron Fontaine came from Virginia in 1798 with a family of twelve children and his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, and settled on Harrods Creek in Jefferson county, of this State. He afterward removed, on January 17, 1814, to the banks of the Ohio river west of Louisville and established his family on a large estate which was purchased by him from Mr. William Lytle, of Cincinnati, O. This estate was part of 3,000 acres purchased by his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, from Sarah Beard, July 7, 1806, the property being known as part of the Connolly and De Warnsdorff tracts.

"The estate purchased by Col. Aaron Fontaine from William Lytle embraced ... acres and at the time of its purchase the property was called "Carter's ferry". It was afterward named "Fontaine Ferry" by Col. Fontaine in 1814 and the place was laid out in orchards lawns and grass lands. The house, of substantial construction, faced the Ohio River, where a boat was kept for pleasure and service. A fine cypress avenue opened on what is now Main and the old "Fountaine Ferry Road" was a famous drive leading into the country retreat. Here Col. Fontaine lived the life of a country squire in the good old days in peace, plenty and hospitality, 100 years ago.

"Col. Fontaine was a gentleman of the old school whose type almost has passed away. He was of French descent and a member of a noble Huguenot family in France. Among the number of the ancestors of this Huguenot was the noted Peverence Peter Fontaine, rector of Westover parish, Charles City County, Va., in 1716. It is said of Col. Fontaine that he was particularly courteous and polite to everyone with whom he came in contact and particularly so to his wife to whom he always doffed his hat before taking his morning toddy and insisted that she taste the toddy first.

"Col. Fontaine, previous to his emigration to Kentucky in 1798, married Barbara Terril, of Virginia, who traced her lineage to the royal house of Stuart and was the granddaughter of Col. William Overton, of "Glencairn," Hanover county, Va. Twelve children were born of this marriage as follows: Mary Ann, the wife of Judge Fortunatus Cosby; Mathilda, the wife of Thomas Prather; Martha, the wife of Aexander Pope; America, the wife of William S. Vernon; Sallie, the wife of Gov. George Floyd; Deborah, the wife of Judge Edmund Bullock; Maria the wife of Sterling Grimes; Barbara, the wife of John Sanders, Ann Overton, the wife of John I. Jacob, and Peter, John and Maury Fontaine, sons.

"Soon after the death of his first wife, Barbara Terrill Fontaine, Col. Fontaine married Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston, the widow of Col. John Thruston, of "Sans Souel," of Jefferson county, who was with Gen. George Rogers Clark in the campaigns against the British and the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. Mrs. Thruston had ten children when she married Col. Fontaine and four children were the result of this marriage.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston's children were Charles M. Thruston, Sr., lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856; Alfred Thruston, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833; Algernon Thruston, Attourney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:" Lucius Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Kitty Luckett, Louisville; Mrs. Worden Pope, Louisville; Mrs, Mollie January, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Fanny Rector, of Arkansas; Mary Thruston, of Louisville, and John Thruston, II, Louisville. The children of the marriage of Col. Fontaine and Mrs. Thruston were Aaron B. Fontaine, Alexander Fontaine, Henry W. Fontaine and Emmeline Dillon Fontaine.

.... have twenty six children .... ets of children in this ... family and the writer has ... distinction of being the ...grandson of Col. Aaron Fontaine and his two wives as well as Judge Fortunatus Cosby and his wife Mary Ann, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thruston, Sr., the latter being a granddaughter of Col. Fontaine and the daughter of Judge Cosby. It is unusual that a grandson should be related on both sides to all the heads of the three families by direct blood descent.

"There may be several omissions in this genealogy which the writer is not able to supply from his notes, but the data given is of sufficient scope to interest the large number of descendants of this extensive connection now living in Louisville.

"In conclusion it may not
http://www.stithvalley.com/ancestry/fontaine/aaronfon.htm

Aaron married Whiting, Elizabeth about 1805 in Kentucky, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Whiting, Colonel Thomas and Thruston, Elizabeth) was born about 1776 in Virginia, United States; died on 2 Jul 1822 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Soon after the death of his first wife, Barbara Terrill Fontaine, Col. Fontaine married Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston, the widow of Col. John Thruston, of "Sans Souel," of Jefferson county, who was with Gen. George Rogers Clark in the campaigns against the British and the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. Mrs. Thruston had ten children when she married Col. Fontaine and four children were the result of this marriage.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston's children were Charles M. Thruston, Sr., lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856; Alfred Thruston, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833; Algernon Thruston, Attourney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:" Lucius Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Kitty Luckett, Louisville; Mrs. Worden Pope, Louisville; Mrs, Mollie January, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Fanny Rector, of Arkansas; Mary Thruston, of Louisville, and John Thruston, II, Louisville. The children of the marriage of Col. Fontaine and Mrs. Thruston were Aaron B. Fontaine, Alexander Fontaine, Henry W. Fontaine and Emmeline Dillon Fontaine.

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"Soon after the death of his first wife, Barbara Terrill Fontaine, Col. Fontaine married Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston, the widow of Col. John Thruston, of "Sans Souel," of Jefferson county, who was with Gen. George Rogers Clark in the campaigns against the British and the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. Mrs. Thruston had ten children when she married Col. Fontaine and four children were the result of this marriage.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston's children were Charles M. Thruston, Sr., lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856; Alfred Thruston, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833; Algernon Thruston, Attourney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:" Lucius Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Kitty Luckett, Louisville; Mrs. Worden Pope, Louisville; Mrs, Mollie January, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Fanny Rector, of Arkansas; Mary Thruston, of Louisville, and John Thruston, II, Louisville. The children of the marriage of Col. Fontaine and Mrs. Thruston were Aaron B. Fontaine, Alexander Fontaine, Henry W. Fontaine and Emmeline Dillon Fontaine.
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(Henry, Henry, James and Ann immigrants, James Whiting & Ann Beitson, John Whiting & Margaret Bonner)

John Charles Fremont
Birth, Parentage and Education. Page 13
Colonel Whiting, Mrs. Fremont's father, Was one of
the most wealthy and prominent men of his day in
Virginia; he was a leading member of the House of 'Bur-
gesses, and during the Revolution was President of the
Naval Board at Williamsburgh (then the seat of govern-
ment), officially the most exalted position, at that time,
in the Colony.* Prior to the revolution he had been
king's attorney.

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Notes for John Bigelow on Fremont
Family Background [July 1856]
Elizabeth Sewall (Seawell) married, had five children--lst Thomas
Whiting & by him [number left blank]' 2nd Samtl Cary & by him had
four children, dying left Sam'l Cary guardian to her children by both
marriages.
Sam'l Cary was sued by the five children of the 1st marriage for their
father's estate.2:
Anne Beverley Whiting, the youngest child of ThomasWhiting and
Elizabeth Sewall (Seawell], was but six months old at the time of her
father's death. Consequently her share of the property and slaves which
should have increased greaty before her coming of age was the most
defenceless in the hands of Sam'l Cary.
Mrs. Lowry (Catherine Whiting) was married when Mrs Elizabeth
Sewall (Seawell] Cary died,l and the stepfather's home being disagreeable
from the vexations of law suits, Anne Wfiiti!ll went to her sister
Catherine to live.
Catherine (Mrs. Lowry) arranged a marriage between her sister &:
Major Pyor who was a very rich man. She was but sevenreen & he
62 at the time of the marriage. Her sister Mrs. Lowry told me her
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Wh8 Colonel Thomas Whiting

Thomas Whiting was the son of Henry Whiting (Wh9) and Ann Beverley (Be9) daughter of Peter Beverley (Be10) and
Born: 1712
Married: 1. to Elizabeth Beverley (?? s.b.)
2. to Elizabeth Thruston (1740-1766) (Th8)
3. to Elizabeth Seawell
Died: 1781, Gloucester County, Virginia.
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Children: *
(Wh7) Elizabeth Thruston Whiting (only child for whom Evelyn Nicholas had accurate records)
(Wh7-2) Francis Whiting
Sources: Wm. end :Mary Q.uarterly, January 1920, Vol.l0, pages 47-15 and other magazines of Virginia history.
Also Thruston Records at Filson Club.

Sketch (Wh8)
Colonel Thomas Whiting (Wh8) was Burgess in Gloucester County, Virginia, to succeed his brother Beverley (at his death) in 1755-56.
.. He was a member of various conventions and of the State Naval Board.

Appendix (Wh8 )
The Whiting history is so confused in its different accounts, it is better not to rely on it. There is no doubt that (Wh8) Thomas Whiting married (Th6) Elizabeth Thruston (1740-l766) as she is mentioned. in the will of her father (Th7) Colonel John Thruston in 1763. None of his grandchi1dren were mentioned.
The will is in the Robert Reude (?Reade) Thruston collection at the Filson C1ub, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Beverley ancestors are not in the index, but should be added.

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Thomas married Thruston, Elizabeth in 1757. Elizabeth (daughter of Thruston, John and Mynn, Sarah) was born in 1716 in Virginia, United States; died in 1766 in Gloucester, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes on Major Henry Whiting
W. H. Whiting, Jr.
The William and Mary Quarterly Second Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 47-51 (article consists of 5 pages)
Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1921752
The name of the family is spelled in various ways in records and state papers, -- Whyting, Whityng, Whiteing , Whitinge, Whiting

DEATH: Also shown as Died Gloucester, Virginia, United States.

Henry married Beverley, Ann in 1693 in Virginia, United States. Ann (daughter of Beverley, Peter and Peyton, Elizabeth) was born in 1689 in Jamestown, Middlesex, Virginia, United States; died in 1744 in Elmington, Gloucester, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Peter Beverley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Beverley (1668-1728) was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer of Virginia. He was born in Jamestown.[1]

Ancestry and family[edit]
Beverley was the first of three sons born to Major Robert Beverley and his wife, Mary of Yorkshire, England. He married Elizabeth Peyton, the daughter of Major Robert Peyton, and had three daughters: Susanna, Elizabeth and Anne.[1] His daughter, Elizabeth, married William Randolph II around 1705 and had five children that lived to adulthood.[2][3] His daughter, Susanna, married Sir John Randolph. His daughter Anne married Henry Whiting. Peter was the grandfather of Elizabeth Whiting who married Dr. John Clayton. Peter was also the grandfather of Peyton Randolph, a speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, chairman of the Virginia Conventions, and the first President of the Continental Congress[citation needed]; as well as the great-grandfather of Beverley Randolph, the eighth Governor of Virginia[2] and William Fitzhugh's wife, Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh.[4]

The Randolphs were lineal descendants of Pocahontas.[5]

References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Standard, W.G. (1895). "Major Robert Beverley and His Descendants". In Bruce, Philip A.. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography III. Richmond, Virginia: The Virginia Historical Society. pp. 169-170.
^ Jump up to: a b Page, Richard Channing Moore (1893). "Randolph Family". Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia (2 ed.). New York: Press of the Publishers Printing Co. pp. 249-272.
Jump up ^ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed. (1898). "The Randolphs: Randolph Genealogy". Some Colonial Mansions: And Those Who Lived In Them : With Genealogies Of The Various Families Mentioned 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Henry T. Coates & Company. pp. 430-459.
Jump up ^ Randolph, Robert Isham (1936). The Randolphs of Virginia: A Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island and His Wife Mary Isham Of Bermuda Hundred (PDF).
Jump up ^ Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families, p. 161
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External links[edit]
Peter Beverley at Find a Grave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beverley

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Jamestown, Virginia.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1669

DEATH: Also shown as Died 1728

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born Nansemond Co., Va..

DEATH: Also shown as Died 1764

John married Mynn, Sarah. Sarah was born about 1710 in Gloucester, Virginia, United States; was christened on 2 Sep 1716 in Abington, Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died in 1786; was buried on 24 Jan 1734 in , , Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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SURNAME: Also shown as Minn

BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Abingdon, Gloucester, Virginia, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Virginia, United States.