Mann Page

Mann Page (1749–1781), sometimes referred to as Mann Page III, was an American lawyer, politician and planter from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, who served in the House of Burgesses and first Virginia House of Delegates as well as a delegate for Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1777. His elder half brother was Virginia Governor John Page. Since the name was common in the family, and five men of the same name served in the Virginia General Assembly (three of them during this man's political career), relationships are discussed below. Early and family life Mann was born to Mann Page II and Ann Corbin Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe I, (his second or third wife) at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia. The Page family was one of the First Families of Virginia, who not only held political power and significant estates, but also often intermarried. They were descended from Col. John Page, who emigrated from Middlesex County in England to Bruton Parish in what was known as Middle Plantation but became Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia circa 1650. His second wife Mary Mann had given birth to the progenitor's only surviving son, Matthew Page, who named his son Mann Page (1691-1730) to honor his mother. Mann Page I had founded Rosewell Plantation. Mann Page II (1717- after 1764) was the eldest son of Mann Page I, a member of the Virginia Governor's Council, and his second wife, Judith Carter (daughter of King Carter, who also served on that council, also known as the Council of State). Although Mann Page II married twice, the date of his death is unknown, since it was not inscribed on his tombstone. He also may have been the first man of that name to serve in the Virginia legislature, for someone of that name represented the College of William and Mary (not hugely far from Gloucester County) in the House of Burgesses in 1761. By his first wife, Alice Grymes Page, he had a son (this man's half-brother), John Page who would eventually become Governor of Virginia (as well as marry twice and have many children including Mann Page 1766-1813 who is best known for establishing Selby in Gloucester County although he is buried in Hanover County in the Berkeley family graveyard at Airwells), and a daughter Maria Judith Page, who in 1735 married William Randolph III, the son of Thomas Randolph (of Tuckahoe) and the grandson of William Randolph I, and had four children.