Page, Mann, 1749-1781

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PAGE, Mann, (Brother of John Page, of Virginia), a Delegate from Virginia; born at ``Rosewell,'' Gloucester County, Va., in 1749; studied under a private teacher and was graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State house of burgesses; moved to Spotsylvania County; Member of the Continental Congress in 1777; died on his estate, ``Mansfield,'' near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., in 1781; interment near Fredericksburg.

<p>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.</p>

<p>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 Planation 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, and born to his second wife, Judith Carter. 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. This man, Mann Page III (or Mann Page Jr.), was the first child born of his father's second marriage, but his only brothers to survive to adulthood were Robert Page (born 1751) who moved to Hanover County, Virginia and Gwynn Page (b. 1758) who moved to Kentucky although some of his descendants returned to Virginia. The family also included sisters Betsey Page Harrison (b. 1762 and who married Benjamin Harrison of Prince George County in 1782) and Lucy Burwell Page (b. 1764) who married Col. George Baylor and had six children before being widowed, then marrying Col. Nathaniel Burwell of Clarke County, Virginia. Meanwhile, this Mann Page attended the College of William & Mary before reading law.</p>

<p>On April 18, 1776, this Mann Page married Mary Tayloe, the fifth child of John Tayloe of Spotsylvania County, who died three years later. Mann and Mary had three children: Maria Page (b. 1777) who married Lewis Burwell, Lucy Gwynn Page (b. 1779) who married Josiah Tidball) and Mann Page IV (1781) (whose wife's name is unknown, but who also served in Virginia's legislature and whose son Mann Page V in 1827 married Mary Champe Willis in Orange County, Virginia, and who after her death studied medicine and moved to Mississippi.</p>