Mann Page
American politician (1749–1781)
Mann Page III (1749 – 1781) 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 life
Mann was born to Mann Page II and Ann Corbin Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe I, (his second 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).
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