John Williamson Page was born on 20 Feb 1720 in Virginia.[1] There is a discrepancy between this date and the one found on the FindAGrave Memorial by four years. Many researchers have taken the birth date from FindAGrave which results of perpetuation of that information as fact. It is also seen in a Wikipedia article as well as the site about Rosewell[2] claim that construction of Rosewell was begun in 1725 which suggests that Rosewell was not John's birthplace, but there are suggestions that his father, Mann Page, lived at Rosewell earlier than 1725. Which ever is the case, it seems clear that Rosewell is strongly associated with the Page family, and if John wasn't born there, he was born nearby, very likely at the Timberneck Plantation, also discussed in the Page Genealogy, in Gloucester, Virginia, and certainly grew up in Rosewell.
According to Governor Page's letter, extracts from which may be seen in Bishop Meade, op. at., Vol. I., p. 147, note, he was educated a lawyer, and was a member of the Colonial Council, in place of his elder brother, Mann Page, of Rosewell. In this capacity we find the name of Hon. John Page, of North End, in the Virginia Almanac for 1776. He was, therefore, among the last of the Colonial Councillors. (Genealogy of the Page family in Virginia: By Richard Channing Moore Page). However, since he died in 1774, perhaps the 1776 Almanac was citing data from the past and publishing it in 1776.
Hon. John Page and Jane Byrd, his wife, married in 1746, had fifteen children in all, four of whom died infants, their names being unknown. The eleven that survived were as follows:[1]
Mann Page (1747 - 1779), eldest, born at North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., VA., about 1747; removed to Fairfield. Clarke Co.. Virginia. He married, about 1767, Mary Mason Selden, of Salvington. Stafford Co., VA.
John Page, born at North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., VA about 1749; removed to Caroline County, Virginia. He married, in 1764, Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell.
Jane Page, born about 1751; married, about 1770, Dr. Nathaniel Nelson, second son and child of President William Nelson, of Yorktown, VA.
Dr. William Page, born at North End, about 1753; removed to Richmond, VA. He married, about 1778, Miss Jones.
Judith Page, born about 1755, married, about 1775, Col. Hugh Nelson, third son and child of President William Nelson, of Yorktown, VA.
Carter Page, born at North End, 1758; removed to Willis" Fork, Cumberland Co., VA. He married, first, in 1783, Mary Cary, and secondly, in 1799, Lucy, eighth child and third daughter of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, VA.
Robert Page, born in 1764; removed to Janeville, Clarke Co., VA. He married, in 1788. Sarah Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co., VA. As four other children had died as infants (names unknown) when Robert was born he was really the eleventh child, although the seventh survivor.
Maria (called Molly) Page, born about 1765; married, first, John Byrd ; secondly, Archie Boiling; and thirdly, Peter Randolph ; by none of whom had she any issue.
Matthew Page, born about 1767; died unmarried.
Thomas Page, born about 1773; married, about 1798, Mildred, daughter of Edmund Pendleton, father of Edmund Pendleton, who married Jane B. Page, daughter of the above-named John Page (No. 2) and Elizabeth Burwell, his wife. Of the children of Thomas Page and Mildred Pendleton, his wife, Mildred Page married Palmer. There were also Thomas, Henry, and Robert, of whom nothing at present is known.
Lucy Page, youngest, born about 1775; married, about 1792. Francis Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., VA., fourth son and child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, VA.
Death
John died on 6 Oct 1774 at either Mansfield Hall, Spotsylvania, Virginia or in Matthews, Gloucester, Virginia. Based on the excerpt from the Virginia Gazette, it would appear that he died at Mansfield near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
John Page died "On Saturday morning last" at Mansfield near Fredericksburg, Virginia at the home of Mann Page. [3]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1Genealogy of the Page family in Virginia: also a condensed account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph families:
Page, Richard Channing Moore,. Genealogy of the Page family in Virginia : also a condensed account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph families, with references to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Wellford, Washington, and other distinguished families in Virginia. New York: Publishers' Print. Co., 1893 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 12279 #97 (accessed 9 August 2022)
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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