After he graduated from William and Mary, he then served under George Washington in an expedition during the French and Indian War.

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.

Page and Burwell built the council whose membership read like a list of Patriots, shaping the American Revolution against Britain.

Gloucester County voters elected him and Thomas Smith as their representatives in the new Virginia House of Delegates 1781–1783 and re=elected the pair three times to the one-year, part-time position until electing James Hubard to replace Page in 1784, only to reelect Page with Smith's namesake son, who served 1785 – 1788.

[2] However, when voters were asked to select delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, they chose Warner Lewis alongside Thomas Smith, rather than this man.

However, they selected Mordecai Cooke and James Baytop, who became their repeatedly reelected delegates in Richmond.

[3] After his terms in Congress, Page again won election as one of Gloucester County's representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1797, alongside William Hall.

[7] He also tried to return to Congress in 1801, but was defeated by Federalist nominee and former state delegate John Stratton.

Together, Frances and John were the parents of twelve children, though only seven lived to adulthood: Mann (1766–1813), Robert (1770-?

[13] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress