Page, Mann, 1749-1781

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1749-1781

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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.

Born at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County in the Colony of Virginia, Page studied under a private teacher before graduating from the College of William and Mary, studying law, and being admitted to the bar. Page moved to Spotsylvania County and established his own plantation, known as Mannsfield near Fredericksburg. He twice won elections to represent Spotsylvania County part-time in the House of Burgesses, for the terms beginning in 1772 and in 1774 until Governor Lord Dunmore closed the assembly in 1776. Spotsylvania County electors then elected Page as one of their representatives to the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Virginia Conventions. Page then served as one of Spotsylvania County's first representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, in the session of 1776, when members elected him as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress. He served one term in the Continental Congress.

Page died at Mannsfield and was buried in the family plot there. The plantation was mostly destroyed during the Battle of Fredericksburg in the Civil War, but a remnant remains within the battlefield park.

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Spotsylvania County

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