John Page
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John Page (1743 - 1808)

Governor John Page
Born in Gloucester County, Virginiamap
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Husband of — married about 1765 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1790 in New York, United Statesmap
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Died at age 65 in Richmond, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Preceded by
12th Governor
James Monroe
John Page
13th Governor
of Virginia
Virginia
1802—1805
Succeeded by
14th Governor
William H. Cabell

Biography

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NSSAR Ancestor #: P-264524
Rank: Colonel, Virginia Militia

John Page (April 28, 1743 – October 11, 1808) was a figure in early United States history. He served in the U.S. Congress and as the 13th Governor of Virginia.

Page was born and lived at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County. He was the son of Alice (Grymes) and Mann Page. His great-great-grandfather was Colonel John Page (1628–1692), an English merchant from Middlesex who emigrated to Virginia with his wife Alice Lucken Page and settled in Middle Plantation. He was the brother of Mann Page III.


Governor John Page House, Williamsburg John Page graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, where he was a friend and closest college classmate of Thomas Jefferson, having exchanged a great deal of correspondence. He then served under George Washington in an expedition during the French and Indian War. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1776. He also served during the American Revolutionary War as an officer in the Virginia state militia, raising a regiment from Gloucester County and supplementing it with personal funds. During that war, he attained the rank of colonel.

Page was also involved in politics. He became the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and served 1776-1779. He was then a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1781-1783 and 1785 - 1788. Page was elected to the First United States Congress and reelected to the Second and Third, and to the Fourth as a Republican. Overall, he was Congressman from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1797.

After his terms in Congress, he was again a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1797, 1798, 1800, and 1801. He became the Governor of Virginia in 1802 and served to 1805. After being governor, he was appointed United States commissioner of loans for Virginia and held office until his death in Richmond, Virginia on October 11, 1808.


Broadside, order by John Page, president of the council, ordering state militia to be trained and prepared for battle, 20 August 1776 He was interred in St. John's Churchyard in Richmond.

John Page was married to the early American poet, Margaret Lowther Page (1759-1835), who was host to a vibrant literary salon at the Rosewell Plantation.

John Page himself was also a poet who wrote several poems about national political issues, including Shay's rebellion and the Virginia Religious Disestablishment Act (Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom).

Governor Page was quoted by George W. Bush in his inaugural address in 2001. Writing to his friend Jefferson shortly after the Declaration of Independence was published, Page said of the Declaration and the Revolution: "We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm"[1]

Remains of Page's Plantation, Rosewell, burned in 1916 Legacy The Page family was one of the First Families of Virginia, which included Colonel John Page. Governor John Page, his brother Mann Page, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Nelson Page, and Virginian Railway builder William Nelson Page.

Page County, Virginia, located in the Shenandoah Valley, was formed in 1831 and named for Governor John Page.

Research Notes

Five Page siblings, married Nelson siblings:

William Nelson married Sarah Burwell Page
Thomas Nelson married Frances Burwell Page
Elizabeth Nelson married Mann Page
Robert Nelson married Judith Carter Page
Susannah Nelson married Francis Page


Sources

  • Bobrick, Benson: Angel in the Whirlwind. Simon and Schuster, 1997




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Frances Burwell, daughter of Robert Carter Burwell, married Gov. John Page. (see page 177, "Some Colonial Letters," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Oct., 1902), pp. 176-183; Published by: Virginia Historical Society; Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242508)
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
see page 80... this 1893 genealogy of the Page family says his first wife was Frances Burwell, daughter of Robin & Sallie (Nelson) Burwell.
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett

Rejected matches › Jean Page (abt.1742-)