Birth: about 1603 in Rochelle, France
Death: 1666 in Rochelle,Charente-Maritime, France
Jacques was of the fourth generation in the family who were Protestants but the first to be a minister of the Reformed
Faith. He was a scholar who had studied at both the College and the protestant theological seminary of Saumur in the town of the same name in western France.He travelled as a tutor to a frenchman,and because of this he learned several languages. Upon completing his formal education, he became pastor of the United Churches of Vaux and Royan in Saintonge. In addition to his clerical duties, he taught students who boarded in his home and he taught his own children, thus establishing the family custom of combining the two careers of clergyman.
In a new book about the de la Fontaines, it says that he, and Elizabeth Thompson were married in London. He lived in Vaux with his first wife Elisabeth.He was minister of the protestant churches of Royan and Vaux.
In his first marriage he had six children:
Jane; married Mr. L’Hommeau.
Judith; married Mr. Guiennot.
Jacques (James); minister, pastor Archiac, in Saintonge.
Elizabeth; married Mr. Sautreau.
Peter; minister, assisted and later succeeded his father.
Francis; died young.
After his first wife´s death he met and married the much younger Marie Chaillon, in 1641. She was from the neighborhood of Pons, in Saintonge, where here father possessed considerable property and resided at a country place named Rue au Roy. His second wife brought a substantial dowry to the marriage.They purchased and resided at the estate of Jenouille and adjacent manor of Jaffe. By this wife he had five children:
Susan; married Stephen Gachot.
Peter; minister at Saintonge and Salles.
Mary; married Peter Forestier.
Ann; married Leon Testard Sieru des Meslars.
Jacqus (James); born Apr 7. 1658 From James comes the american line of descendants.There is a society in US http://www.fontainemaurysociety.org
He died of apoplexy (slaganfall) in his home.
" Rev. Jacques Fontaine dropped the "de la" from his name for reasons of humility and refused to permit his sons to use it. He was a man of fine figure, pure red and white complexion, and very dignified deportment, commanding the respect of all with whom he came in contact. He was a remarkably abstemious man; he lived chiefly upon milk,fruits and vegetables during the greater part of his life but towards its close he lived more generously, in conformity with the advice of his physicians." http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/n/Emmett-W-Fontaine/PDFBOOK1.pdf
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