Fontaine Maury (1761–1824)
Maury was an acquaintance of Bushrod Washington.
Fontaine Maury, a brother of James Maury, was born on 3 February 1761 in Albemarle County, Virginia. Following service in the Revolutionary War, he moved to Fredericksburg, where he managed a merchant house, sat as mayor for three terms, and superintended the local branch of the Bank of Richmond. Maury also handled the James Madison family business affairs in Fredericksburg. In later years he worked as a clerk in the State Department.
"Fontaine Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 18–29 July 1812," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-05-02-0200. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5, 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 258–259.]
"To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 17 May 1801 (Abstract)," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 192.]
George Tucker Brooke, "The Brooke Family (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 18, Number 4 (October 1910), 453–56.
New York Evening Post, 31 January 1824, page 3, column 2 (Newspapers.com).
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