Items For Purchase from the Library
The Society librarians are available for you to purchase items from our collection or to help answer your genealogy or other research questions.
To Purchase Items
Please note that the Society is unavailable to process purchase orders at this time. We are seeking
a new materials librarian who can join our Board of Directors and handle the maintaining of
inventory, processing orders, and arranging for the materials to be available for review and purchase
at our annual meetings. Anyone wishing to volunteer for this position is welcome to contact the
Society’s president.
To Submit Research and Other Questions
If you need assistance with a research question or project, please contact:
Brian H. Nilsson, Librarian
969-B South Rolfe Street Please note that we are unable to
Arlington, VA 22204-4538 process purchase orders at this time.
Email: BHNilsson [then the “at” symbol] aol.com
Items for Purchase: Books/Booklets
Allied Families of the Missouri Fountains (Fontaines): Joseph Fontaine 1748-1813 m. 1773 Mary (Polly) Good 1754-1812; The Ancestors of Mary Goode and Especially the History of the Goode Family, by Vida Leola Vance. History of descendants of Joseph Fontaine (1748-1813) who married Mary Goode. Published in 1988. 116 pages, not indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 22
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Ancestors and Descendants of the Reverend Peter Fontaine (1691-1759) of Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, by Charles J. Ragland. Part I has 315 pages containing 213 biographical sketches of ancestors and descendants bearing the Fontaine name. Sketches vary in content and depth, all include a bibliography. Part II is 188 pages of genealogical charts listing known descendants and includes basic data such as birth, marriage, death, places of residents, & occupations. Well-organized, documented, and indexed. Self-published in Winston-Salem, NC.
Part I photocopy: $ 33
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Part II photocopy: $ 22
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Both photocopies: $ 50
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Biographies of the Fontaine Family in Beaverdam Cemetery in Hanover County, Virginia, by Brian H. Nilsson. The booklet includes a brief biography for each person buried in Beaverdam Cemetery, a photograph of each gravestone, photographs of persons or of portraits if available, and some documents pertaining to these people. It includes biographies on 28 people, five of whom served in or provided leadership in the Civil War. Self-published by the author in 2016 in Arlington Virginia. 41 pages, footnotes, and an appendix with a family tree of the people in the cemetery.
Photocopy Price: $ 10
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Description of Honors Awarded to Matthew Fontaine Maury, L.L.D.-U.S.N.-C.S.W., and Corresponding Relating Thereto, by Sallie Anne Werth Hicks in 1991. Based on information compiled by Richard L. Maury in 1897 and Mary Maury Werth in December 1909. 82 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 13
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via email: $ 5
First Lessons in Geography, by Matthew Fontaine Maury, includes comments by Sallie Anne Werth Hicks. 1st published in 1889 by University Publishing Co. in New York. 66 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 12
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Fontaine Crest. This 8½x11 crest is in bright colors (gold, silver, red, and purple), suitable for framing. Courtesy of the late James Hicks, Jr.
Photocopy Price: $ 5
PDF Price on CD: $ 5
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Fontaine Maury Grand Reunion at La Rochelle, France, September 2003. A 24-page album of the visit of Society members to Fontaine family sites in France. 2-page summary of trip.
PDF Price for CD or e-mail: $ 8
Fontaine Maury Society Annual Meeting Albums and Fontaine Pictorial Family History,
1977 to 2013, by John May. This CD contains seven folders: six containing photo albums with photographs, maps, and other handouts from the Society’s annual meeting weekends for most years from 1977 to 2013. The seventh folder contains a Fontaine pictorial family history. This digital collection of over 600 individual photographs is based on seven photo albums assembled by the late Society president John May. This collection is only available on CD. It is not available in hardcopy or via email.
PDF Price for CD: $8
Fontaine Maury Society Newsletters. Early issues from 1972 and consecutive issues from August 1984 to the present.
Photocopy Price: $ 30
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail.
Price for single paper copy or e-mail: $ 1
Not available on CD.
Fontaine Maury Society T-Shirts. These are 100% cotton dark blue T-shirts, with the Society’s name and the Huguenot cross. We have four sizes – Medium, Large, X-Large, and X-X-Large. Sorry, we do not have Small or children’s sizes.
T-Shirt Price: $ 15
Fontaine Trail, by John May. Detailed directions for self-guided tours of sites in France, England, and Ireland where Jaques Fontaine lived, worked, and traveled. 10 pages. 1999.
Photocopy Price: $ 5
PDF Price on CD: $ 5
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Francis Fontaine the Builder 1721-1785: His Ancestors and Descendants and Their Connections, by Hubert McAlexander, Richard Douglas McCrum, and Dan Morse Woodliff. A definitive history of Francis Fontaine, Jr., and his descendants, correcting mistakes in this line of the Fontaine family from Ann Maury’s misreading of a letter from the Fontaine family of Columbus, GA and added incorrectly to her 1853 Fontaine/Maury chart. Published for the authors by Otter Bay Books in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2009. Sources woven into the text, fully indexed. 278 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 30
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Genealogical Chart of the Fontaine and Maury Families, by Ann Maury. Excellent circular family tree, 30x36, suitable for framing. Jean de la Fontaine (d. 1563) is in the center of the chart, followed by eight generations each in a circle. There are missing lines and some errors, most notably the children of Francis Fontaine (1721-1785).
Photocopy Price: $ 15
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Please note that you will need to take the CD to a printer, as it is too large to print at home.
Not available via e-mail
Genealogical Chart of the Winston Family, by Marie Rauschenberg Rice. Excellent circular family tree, 25x25, suitable for framing. Isaac Winston (b. 1620) is in the center of the chart, with 12 circles of generations. The chart includes the family of Mary Anne Fontaine (1718-1780s), daughter of Rev. Peter Fontaine (1691-1759), who married Isaac Winston, and other allied families, including the Armisteads and Dabneys. Courtesy of Marie Rauschenberg Rice.
Photocopy Price: $ 15
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Please note that you will need to take the CD to a printer as it is too large to print at home.
Not available via e-mail
Genealogies of Fontaines, by Mercedes Brown Cattle. Descendants of Rev. Peter Fontaine through son Aaron (1753-1823) and grandson James Terrell Fontaine (1776-1840). Thoroughly researched and documented. Published 1967 by Edwards Brothers Inc. of Ann Arbor, MI. 228 pages, no index.
Photocopy Price: $ 30
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Here’s Lamar Fontaine and Clarksdale, by Miriam Dobbs. A brief 13-page summary of Lamar Fontaine’s book, My Life and My Lectures. His writing was colorful, so his books may not be completely historically accurate. Self-published by the author in 1974. 7 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 8
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
History of a Fontaine Family and Kinfolks: Boursiquot, Maury, Glannison, Jasper, Bruton, Beall, Cox, Penick, Vickers, from 1099 to 1987, From Riches to Rags to Respectability, by Winston Fontaine. Provides summary of early family and brief histories of allied families Maury, Glanisson, Jasper, Bruton, Beall, Cox, Penick, and Vickers. Focus is on the family of Rev. Francis Fontaine (1697-1749). Published in 1987 by Alabama Ancestors in Mobile. Reprinted with corrections and additions in 1999. 273 pages, indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 30
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Huguenot Cemetery Memorial Dedication Program/Presentations in Dublin, Ireland, on May 15, 1999, by Dianne W. Ressinger, Compiler. Includes photograph of the Fontaine plaque in Dublin’s Huguenot Cemetery on Merrion Row; address by Professor Ruth Whelan of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, at the dedication ceremony; and lecture by Dianne Ressinger on the life of Jaques Fontaine. Courtesy of the late Dianne Ressinger. 16 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 10
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Huguenot Cemetery Memorial Dedication Video, Dublin, Ireland, May 15, 1999. Includes ceremony, lecture by Dianne W. Ressinger, and after-dinner remarks. VCR tape. Courtesy of the late Ray Kessler.
Video Price: $ 12
Not available on CD or via e-mail
Huguenot Martyrs of Meaux, Commonly Called The Fourteen at Meaux - A Speech to the Huguenot Society, by Colonel Richard L. Maury, son of Matthew Fontaine Maury, and delivered on the 7 October 1546 event in 1899 to the Huguenot Society. 16 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 8
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Jacques de la Fontaine 8½ x 11 Portrait (1549-1633). Grandfather of Jaques, the refugee. Not historically accurate, likely a late 1800s drawing. Courtesy of the late James Hicks, Jr.
Photocopy Price: $ 5
PDF Price on CD: $ 5
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N., Author of ‘Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology,’ A biography by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin, Fontaine’s daughter. Published in 1888 by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ltd., in London. 320 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 25
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Lineage of George Peter Cosby Fontaine, by Elizabeth Fontaine Waite Jackson. Genealogy of a grandson of Aaron Fontaine. Self-published in 1991 in Grove Hill, AL. 11 pages, not indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 8
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Memories of the British Fontaines: The Album of Kathleen Nancy Fontaine Busfield, by Kathleen Fontaine Busfield, covering the early family history of Jaques Fontaine and his family in England, Ireland, Wales, and colonial America, as well as her more recent British family members descending from Jaques’ son John Fontaine. Available on the Society’s webpage for free, courtesy of Alec Fontaine. Completed in April 2000, it includes handwritten notes, pictures, and copies of various family documents, including excerpts from Jaques’ memoirs. 19 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 10
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Missouri Fountains and their Descendants: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of Reverend Peter Fontaine of Westover Parish, a Virginia Huguenot Colonist of the Eighteen Century, with Pertinent Data on the Related Families from ca 1480 to 1967, by Vida Leola Vance. Family of Joseph Fontaine (1748-1813), son of Rev. Peter Fontaine. Joseph migrated to Kentucky and Missouri (MO). Self-published in 1967 in MO. 236 pages, indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 30
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
My Life and My Lectures, by Lamar Fontaine, C.E., Ph.D. Fact and fiction on the Civil War, China, India, the Russian Army, and his last years in Mississippi. Published in 1908 by The Neale Publishing Co. in New York and Washington. 186 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 27
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Prison Life of One of The Immortal Six Hundred, by Lamar Fontaine. 60-page account of Fontaine’s captivity from August 1864 to June 1865 on the prison ship, Crescent City, on Morris Island, Ft. Pulaski, and Hilton Head. Lamar Fontaine was a colorful writer so the book may not be historically accurate. Published 1910 by Daily Register Print in Clarksdale, MS. Available for free for download here on the Society’s webpage courtesy of F. J. (“Rocky”) Stewart.
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars, by General Dabney Herndon Maury, USA, CSA. Autobiography describing his war adventures and his service as U.S. Minister to Colombia. Courtesy of Sallie Anne Werth Hicks. Published 1894 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York. 279 pages, not indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 25
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Reverend Peter Fontaine 8½ x 11 Portrait / One Page Biography; or as Notecard. Color portrait of Peter at age 24 upon his graduation from Trinity College and his ordination into the ministry. Reproduced from a miniature painting which, according to family tradition, Peter gave to his parents prior to departing to America. The miniature was last seen in 1840 in Hanover County, Virginia. It was probably destroyed either during the Civil War or when the family home at “Beaverdam” burned in 1869. Courtesy of Charles Ragland.
Photocopy Price: $ 5
Not available on CD
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Sévilly Postcard Drawing of Jean de la Fontaine’s Home. Postcard drawing of the house of Jean de la Fontaine (ca. 1500-1563) and his family, still standing outside Ste.-Sabine-sur-Longeve near Le Mans, France. The house was identified through meticulous research by Paul Mason of West Sussex, England. Postcard courtesy of Joe Fontaine.
Photocopy Price: $ 1
Not available on CD
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 1
“Sir Fontaine’s Ride; or The Knight of the Golden Horse-shoe”, by Aldine Silliman Kieffer. A poem within the book, Hours of Fancy or Vigil and Vision, published in 1881 in Drayton, Virginia, by Ruebush, Kieffer & Co., Printers. This is one of the most elaborate poems about the expedition of Governor Spotswood and his companions including John Fontaine across the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1716 and foretells of the Civil War and John Fontaine’s return to that war. 9 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 10
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Structure of the Fontaine Family from 1658 as Reflected Through the Lineage of Active Members of the Fontaine/Maury Society, by Charles J. Ragland, Compiler. Lineages of active members of the Fontaine/Maury Society. Essential for continuing research. Self-published in 1993 in Winston-Salem, NC. 92 pages, indexed.
Photocopy Price: $ 17
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family, by Jaques Fontaine. 1st publication in English. Does not include the family letters in appendix of Ann Maury’s edition. Published 1838 by John S. Taylor, Theological & Sunday School Bookseller, in N.Y. 266 pages.
Photocopy Price: $ 23
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
Not available via e-mail
Ten Subjects from the Designs of the Carracci, and Frontspiece, Title Page and Vignettes, also from the Works of These Painters, selected and executed by Sarah Mytton Maury. Reproduction of lithographs selected by Maury; the subjects are three by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) who is considered the most admired painter of his time and a key founder of the Baroque style, three by his older brother Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), and three by their cousin Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619). Published 1843 by George Smith & Co. in Liverpool. Courtesy of Sheila and Bob Maury.
Photocopy Price: $ 10
PDF Price on CD: $ 8
PDF Price via e-mail: $ 5
Ordering and Research Query Information:
The Society librarians are available for you to purchase items from our collection or to help answer your genealogy or other research questions.
To Purchase Items
Please note that the Society is unavailable to process purchase orders at this time. We are seeking
a new materials librarian who can join our Board of Directors and handle the maintaining of
inventory, processing orders, and arranging for the materials to be available for review and purchase
at our annual meetings. Anyone wishing to volunteer for this position is welcome to contact the
Society’s president.
To Submit Research and Other Questions
If you need assistance with a research question or project, please contact:
Brian H. Nilsson, Librarian
969-B South Rolfe Street Please note that we are unable to
Arlington, VA 22204-4538 process purchase orders at this time.
Email: BHNilsson [then the “at” symbol] aol.com