Mann Page (1749–1781),sometimes referred to as 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. His elder half brother was Virginia Governor John Page. Since the name was common in the family,and five men of the same name served in the Virginia General Assembly,relationships are discussed below.
Thomas Ludwell Lee,Sr. was a Virginia planter and politician who served in the House of Burgesses and later the Virginia Senate,and may be best known as one of the editors of the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Major Robert Ellyson was a legislator,lawyer,military officer,and physician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing the electoral constituency of James City County from 1655 to 1656 and from 1660 to 1665.
Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia,serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle Edward Bennett's business,managing his plantation known as Bennett's Welcome in Warrascoyack. Two decades later,Bennett immigrated to the Maryland colony with his family,and settled on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County.
Edward Major was an English religious dissenter who emigrated to the Virginia where he became a planter,military officer and politician who represented the area variously called Upper Norfolk County or Nansemond County and became Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
William Whitby emigrated from England to the Virginia colony where he became politician and major landowner. He represented Warwick County as a burgess several times,and became Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in the 1653 session.
Francis Moryson was an English soldier who became a Virginia colonial official and agent. A Royalist in the English Civil War,he emigrated to the Virginia Colony,where he held several posts before returning to England and becoming the colony's agent,and finally briefly served on the commission investigating Bacon's Rebellion.
Peter Beverley was an English-born planter and lawyer who served as the 27th speaker of the House of Burgesses as well as treasurer of the Colony of Virginia (1710-1723). His father Robert Beverley had been the clerk of the House and a prominent member of the "Green Spring" faction in the decade after Bacon's Rebellion,and Peter Beverley also served as clerk before winning election as a Burgess and serving as speaker in four of the five assemblies at the beginning of the 18th century.
Col. William Travers was a lawyer,early settler and politician of Colonial Virginia.
Christopher Robinson was a planter,merchant and politician in the British colony of Virginia. Robinson held several public offices in Colonial Virginia and is the patriarch in America for one of the First Families of Virginia.
William Kendall Sr. (I) (1621-1686) was a British merchant,planter,military officer and politician who came to own considerable land on Virginia's Eastern Shore. He represented Northampton County several times before and after Bacon's Rebellion,and during 1685 became the 21st Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses while representing Accomack County.
Henry Seawell was a British merchant who became a landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia and thrice serve in the House of Burgesses.
John Constable Lee,the Oxford educated eldest son of London merchant and Virginia planter Richard Lee I accompanied his father on several of his voyages between London and its Virginia colony,as well as became a planter and official in Westmoreland County,including a term in the House of Burgesses shortly before his death.
Henry Whiting (1640–1694) was a Virginia physician,planter and military officer who served in the House of Burgesses representing Gloucester County,on the Governor's Council,and as the Treasurer of the Virginia Colony.
Major Robert Beverley (1635–1687) was a British merchant who became wealthy after emigrating to the Colony of Virginia,where he also became a controversial clerk of the House of Burgesses following Bacon's Rebellion. One of the wealthiest men in the northern Tidewater region,he eventually owned about 28,000 acres in four counties and founded the Beverley family of Virginia,one of the First Families of Virginia.
Mathew Kemp was a British attorney who emigrated from England to the Colony of Virginia where he became a government official,planter and politician. He supported Governor William Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion and became Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1679 before being elevated to the Virginia Governor's Council.
Thomas Milner,emigrated from England to the Virginia colony where he became a merchant,planter,military officer and politician who twice served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Richard Lawrence was an Oxford University graduate who emigrated to the Virginia colony where after various real estate speculations,he married a wealthy widow and became a tavernkeeper in Jamestown. Lawrence became one of Nathaniel Bacon's closest confidantes during Bacon's Rebellion and briefly served in the House of Burgesses during that conflict,after which he vanished with two other men otherwise likely to have been sentenced to death for treason.
John Pate (1632-1672) was a planter and politician who invested in land in and around Gloucester County and in his last years served on the Virginia Governor's Council.
Thomas Pate was a British merchant who became a planter,military officer and politician who served a term as burgess representing Gloucester County in the House of Burgesses. Although rebel Nathaniel Bacon commandeered this man's house in Gloucester during Bacon's Rebellion,and the house later hosed Governor Howard also lived there,the restored home now named after this man was probably built two decades after his death.
