Thank you for responding about the Knights.
The Fontaine Journal, being the only contempory acccount, is most
interesting. They certainly knew how to travel, sounds like they had quite
the party. Its amazing that they even made it!
There have certainly been many romantic tales of this adventure. 200 years
after Spotswood and the Knights made their expedition, there was a reforming
of the order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe. I was particularly
interested in this group, but have not found too much on them other than a
mention of them in a 1954 Germanna Journal.


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Those interested in the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe should obtain from
their local library, or by interlibrary loan, "The Journal of John
Fontaine."


Fontaine was the minister who accompanied the "Knights" to the top of the
Blue Ridge.  His journal contains his account of this journey.  He was in
company of Spotswood from the beginning, at Williamsburg, through all of the
local stops (and all of the toasts to various important events along the
way)
until the end when Spotswood returned to Williamsburg.

This is a marvelous anecdote of our past with many references to those who
made the trek and those met along the way.

Joyce Browning
Fairfax County, Virginia

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