Re: Mary de la Fontaine & Benjamin Risher
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Re: Mary de la Fontaine & Benjamin Risher
Mary McGuire 7/31/00
The 1915 edition of "House of Stokes" by J Lemacks Stokes, D.D., pp 11-12 seems to be the origin of all South Carolina information on Mary de la Fontaine and Benjamin Risher. That includes "Two Great-Grands" and "Cemeteries of Upper Colleton County", in the chapter titled Richard Risher Family Cemetery.
All these sources give Mary's birthdate as Dec. 24,1753.However we have this much earlier date from "Memoirs of a Huguenot Family", pp 336-337 where in a letter to Moses Fontaine in Wales, the Rev. Peter Fontaine, uncle to Francis Fontaine, Jr. writes that Mary was 14 months old in 1750 and that her brother Francis was 3 years old.
What should we do with this information???
Their marriage date is shown as December 20, 1772 and Mary's death date is given in "Cemeteries" as 1812.