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Preferred Citation

John Page. Letters, 1776. Accession 24721. Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 23 October 1957.

Biographical Information

John Page was born 17 April 1743 at Rosewell in Gloucester County, Virginia, to Mann Page (b. 1718) and Alice Grymes Page (1723-1746). He attended the College of William and Mary. When the American Revolution began, Page raised a regiment from Gloucester County and received a commission of colonel in the army. He served as lieutenant governor from 1776 to 1779, and in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1781 to 1783, from 1785 to 1788, and from 1797 to 1801. Page was a member of the United States Congress from 1789 to 1797. Elected governor, Page served from 1802 to 1805. After his term as governor, Page was U.S. commissioner of loans for Virginia. He married first Frances Burwell (d. ca. 1787) in 1765, and they had nine children. He married second Margaret Lowthar in 1789, and they had eight children. Page died in Richmond, Virginia, 11 October 1808, and is buried at St. John's Church.

Scope and Content Information

Letters, 1776, from John Page (1743-1808) to Charles Lee (1731-1782) consisting of: letter, 12 July 1776, describing the defense of Gwynn Island against the fleet of Lord Dunmore; and letter, 13 August 1776, discussing Lee's military maneuvers, campaigns against the Cherokee by the militias of Virginia and North Carolina, the arrival of the Chevalier de st. Aubin, and mail difficulties. These letters are printed in Lee Papers volume II, volume 5 of the the New York Historical Society, pp. 131-136 and 214-216.

Arrangement

Letters are arranged chronologically.