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Book Number: 405005 The Book: The Journal of John Fontaine, An Irish Huguenot Son in Spain and Virginia, 1710-1719, edited, with an introduction by Edward Porter Alexander. Published by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, 1972. One of the Williamsburg Eyewitness to History series. Index, notes, illus., photos, maps, folding map, 8vo., brown cloth, dj., 190 pp. VG condition. John Fontaine was a British Army Officer whose father, a French refugee, had settled first in Devonshire and later in Ireland. Fontaine's journal was written during three trips to Virginia and one to New York City. The journal contains numerous references to early settlers in Virginia and New York that Fontaine met on his travels. Includes a chapter on the Fontaine genealogy.
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