Mann Page Papers, 1765-1869.

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Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
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Preferred citation:

Mann Page Papers, Manuscript MS 31.8, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Mann Page, 1766-1813.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Mann Page Papers, Manuscript MS 31.8, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of Mann Page, Jr. Primarily his business accounts and receipts, and legal papers and receipts relating to his position as clerk of the Gloucester County Court. Included are a few letters pertaining to financial matters at Rosewell, and a letter, August 11, 1787, from John Mason, a student at the College of William and Mary, to Page, stating that there were only five students in the college at the time. A few later accounts were probably kept by Page's descendants.

Page from the Virginia Gazette, containing promotions, books published in July and stock prices 27 June to 26 July 1765.

An order to deliver to Mr. Flicker a note for tobacco.

Deed for a slave named Tom in Gloucester County.

First page of a letter discussing a plan of trade.

Order to deliver three bushels of wheat to William Lucas, overseer for Mann Page, Timberneck.

Receipt for 1787 taxes.

Concerns a lawsuit.

Request for a loan, receipted 16 July 1788 by Peter Bell.

Letter re getting a doctor for ill slaves. Also mentions Dr. Griffin and Nathaniel Burwell's estate.

Order to let John Spencer have two barrels of corn.

Order for pork.

Receipt for a delivery of wheat to Dr. Enis.

Receipt for 1788 poor taxes.

Concerns postage.

Tax account of Mann Page, for 1789. Includes revenue tax, county levy, and poor rates.

Appraisal by P. Tabb and D. Cary of two horses of Mann Page and two yoke of oxen of J. Dean.

Receipt for 1788 taxes.

Concerns the balance to money received from Mr. Bassett to be paid to Thomas Dixon. Receipt 7 June 1790 by Henry Fox.

Concerns tobacco and the order of various articles.

Concerns delivery to Page of goods he ordered, a tobacco order, and Burwell's estate.

Order to Mr. Teagle in favor of Spencer for 2 barrels of corn and 5 bushels of wheat to Ambrose Anderson. 5 bushels of wheat out of last crop to Anderson.

Order for 5 bushels of wheat.

Concerns a suit for debt. John Perrin vs. Stephen Field, pending in Williamsburg District Court.

Tax receipt for 1789, county levy and tax rates.

Concerns interest due on loan to Greenhow. Statement included.

For taxes and poor rate rates for 1790.

Receipted 2 March 1792.

Concerns William Shermer vs. William Lawson.

Concerns wheat at Scotland, 1791.

Concerns the account of Ambrose Anderson with Mann Page.

Note from F.W. Cook to Mann Page on account of Christopher Pryor.

Includes a note from Robert Thruston to Mann Page.

Concerns Nancy and Mary Ayell vs. Benjamin Marable.

Receipted 23 September 1796.

Concerns fees due Mann Page in Matthews County.

Concerns Warren Hall vs. Thomas Booth.

Concerns Bracken v. Haywood.

Concerns Atkinson v. Lewis Burwell etc.

Concerns Thornton v. Fleming etc.

Concerns case of Caroline Lewis v. William Nelson & John Wickman.

Receipted 15 June.

Receipted.

Concerns Greenhow v. Sterling etc.

Concerns Robert Greenhow v. Sterling and Seawell.

Account of the sales of stock & plantation utensils at New Cap Quarter belonging to the estate of William M. Page, deceased.

Account of oxen to be sold at Gloucester Court House.

Biographical / historical:

Mann Page, Jr. (1766-1813), of Shelly, Gloucester County, Va., was the oldest son of John and Frances Burwell Page.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1931.
Arrangement:

Chronologically arranged. Undated materials including the five volumes are placed at the end.

Physical description:
5 volumes and 504 items.