Mann Page III
(1749-1781)
BIRTH
1749
PLACE
Gloucester County, Virginia
DEATH
1781
PLACE
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
FAMILY
WIFE
Mary Tayloe Page
(1759-1835)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Mann Page III (1749–1781) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and Revolutionary legislator. Born at Rosewell, he studied at William & Mary and practiced law and represented Spotsylvania County in the House of Burgesses and House of Delegates. He served in the Continental Congress in 1777. In 1781 he supported clemency for Billy, an enslaved man convicted of treason, arguing that slavery denied him political allegiance. He died at Mansfield near Fredericksburg.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mann Page III’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Mann Page III with work or public activity as a planter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Mann Page III was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and Revolutionary legislator. In 1781 he supported clemency for Billy, an enslaved man convicted of treason, arguing that slavery denied him political allegiance. Mann Page III 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. 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. Page and George Thornton then served as Spotsylvania County's first representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, in the session of 1776, when members elected him as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress. 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. Mann Page died at home in 1781, and was buried in the family plot at Mannsfield.
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