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.

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.

He and veteran George Stubblefield twice won elections to represent Spotsylvania County part-time in the House of Burgesses, for the terms beginning in 1772 and in 1774 until Governor Lord Dunmore closed the assembly in 1776.

He defended a slave named Billy who wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson and was sentenced to death by hanging for treason as a result.

[14][15] Billy was pardoned in 1781 after Page and two jury members sent a letter arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.

The ruins of Rosewell Plantation, the home of early members of the Page family and one of the finest mansions built in the colonies, sit on the banks of the York River in Gloucester County.