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Title: Fontaine, Rev. Peter to his brothers Moses and John Fontaine, 1756 March 02; No. 337 Rev. Peter Fontaine to his brothers Moses and John Fontaine
Identifier(s): text:346502
Description: Friendly letter; remarks: "We have been Worsted and Shamefully defeated by the Enemy, not for want of men but money to carry on the War and some proper Military discipline. We have enjoyed Peace so long whilst our Mother Country had been Involved in Blood, that we know not how to go about our own defence"; comments: "We.. . are fond of the vices of the age, and therefore deserve chastisement"; complains that treaties do not bind the French and the Indians and that the latter will use a cessation of hostilities to distress the Americans and remarks that the conflict should not be put off and left to their children; points out that "our Intestine Enemys, our Slaves, Encrease dayly" and that the females are more fruitful than white women, and remarks that Britain should "not suffer Such multitudes to be brought from affrica to pleasure a Company [the Royal African Company] and overrun a dutiful Colony."
Subject: Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.; Royal African Company.
Date: 1756-03-02; 2022

Title: Fontaine, Rev. Peter to Moses Fontaine, 1757 March 30; No. 339 Rev. Peter Fontaine to Moses Fontaine
Identifier(s): text:346428
Description: Friendly letter; responds to his query whether breach of treaties instigated the Indians against the English colonies, comments that if the English had intermarried with the Indians it would have made them friends, and complains that whites and Negroes cohabit "by which means the country swarms with Mulattos bastards"; responds to his query whether slavery is agreeable to Christianity, complains that the [Royal] African Company and Board of Trade in England force slaves upon the colonists, and argues that the labor shortage and high prices make it almost impossible to live in Virginia without slaves; comments that if the French land in Virginia "we must take to the Woods and fight from behind the Trees"; [on verso]: Peter Fontaine to [Elizabeth?] Torin: discusses the death of a relative and divine providence.
Subject: Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.; Racism against Black people.; Racism against indigenous peoples; Royal African Company.; Slavery.
Date: 1757-03-30; 2022