Gc M. L. 929.2 Pl43pa 1583001 R^Yh^C- X>S HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION y^ ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC L|BRARY 3 1833 01415 2588 : GENEALOGY " ^/^< /y'i^''-^>;-':/U-^^J->^ u' PAGE j^AMILY IN VIRGINIA ALSO A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF THE Nelson. Walker, Pendleton and Randolph Fami'ies, V/ITH REFERENCES TO THE BYRD, CARTER, GARY, DUKE, GIL:\IER, HARRISON; RIVES, THORNTON, WELLFORD, WASHINGTON, And other distinguished Families in Virginia. ONE OF THE FAMILY. NEW YORK Jenkins & Thomas, Printers, 8 Sprcce Street. 1883. Bl-fN^ V.i-.^>>: ^-v. 1583001 TO THE MEMORY OF COL. JOHN PAGE, ESQ., FIRST OF HIS FAMILY I.V VIRGINIA, WHOSE TEMPERATE AND INUUSTRIOL'S HABITS, INDOMITABLE ENERGY AND STRICT INTEGRITY, WON FOR HIM A HIGH PLACE IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THEIR MAJESTIES, WILLIAM AND MARY, AS A MEMBER CF THEIR COUNCIL IN THE DOMINION OF VIRGINIA, AND ARE WELL WORTHY OF IMITATION BY HIS DESCENDANTS, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS PIOUSLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. RICHMOND, VA PREFACE. The Original Tombstone of Col. John Pag:e, the first of his from England about family in Virginia, was a marble slab imported broken, and for many the year 1695. In some unknown way it was Episcopal churchyard years the fragments were scattered about the Virginia. at Williamsburg, James City County, descendants of Col. For the purpose of restoring it, one of the and, on the 22d of Page visited Williamsburg in the summer of 1877, be found, collected June of that year, had the fragments, that could platform in the and placed, by the consent of the Vestry, on a brick vestibule of the church. a narrow All the lower portion of the tombstone is lost, except was enclosed in the strip containing parts of words. This fragment consists of two brick platform above mentioned. The upper portion when Bishop pieces, one of which evidently had not been found " Families of Meade wrote his book entitled Old Churches and mentioned by him. Vol. I., Virginia" ; for the partial inscription of so much of the inscription p. 195, is evidently an inaccurate copy only as was found on one of these fragments. Carrara During the month of January, 1878, a new monument of found by marble was erected at the head of the grave which was exact copy of the the side of that of his wife, Alice. It contains an tomb- coat-of-arms and inscription that were found on the original gives the date of stone. There are also other notices, one of which on the Page the erection of the new monument. The inscriptions that time copied, tombstones at Williamsburg and Rosewell were at subject of the and this led to a more extended investigation of the finally re- Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, which has sulted in the following little book. the Page In tracing out the different branches and members of of other families Family in Virginia, a somewhat condensed account regard to became necessary. This was particularly the case with : 8 PREFACE. the Nelsons. These two in turn involved the Walkers, and others. It was thought best, therefore, to bind them all in one book. In speaking of localities, the names of the County, State, and even Country when necessary, are also given when they are known. The Roman numbers refer to the Generation, and the ordinary figures to the position of an individual, with respect to age, in any given family. The Generations are reckoned from the first, or what is supposed to be the first, of the family in Virginia. The Roman numbers are not usually applied to females, nor to males who have no married children, but in these two classes of cases a brief and concluding account is given at the time, or else reference is made to some other part of the book. Whenever a date is given without qualification, it has been copied from a tombstone, family Bible or other trustworthy record. But whenever a date is said to be about such and such a time, it has usually been calculated upon the supposition that a woman mar- ries at the age of 20, and a man at 25, and that their children were born every other year after the first year of married life. The book has been compiled from a correspondence with vari- ous members of families referred to in it, extending over a period of six years. The following persons have furnished valuable information, viz 1. Mrs. George Byrd, of New York City. 2. Capt. R. R. Carter, of Shirley, on James River, Virginia. 3. Mrs. Fanny Nelson Carter, on James River, Virginia. 4. Wilson Miles Cary, Esq., of Baltimore, Maryland. 5. Miss Nellie Deans, Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Virginia. 6. R. T. W. Duke, Jr., Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Virginia. 7. Miss Mary Jane Griffith, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Virginia. 8. Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, of Charlotte Co., Virginia. 9. Mrs. Mary R. P. Harrison, of The Rowe, on James River, Virginia. 10. Mrs. Ellen Wayles R. Harrison, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Virginia. 11. Genl. Roger Jones, Inspector-Gen., U. S. Army, Washing- ton, D. C. 12. Mrs. Fannie B. P. Meade, of Washington City, D. C. PREFACE. 9 13. Col. William Nelson, of Oakland, Hanover Co., Virginia. 14. Dr. Robert W. Nelson, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Virginia. 15. Miss L. Page Nelson, of New York City. 16. Miss Fannie B. Nelson, of Yorktown, Virginia. 17. \V. Steptoe Nelson, of Bedford Co., Virginia. 18. Mann Page, Esq., Lower Brandon, on James River, Virginia. 19. Legh R. Page, Esq., Richmond, Virginia. 20. John \V. Page, Esq.. of Petersville, Frederick Co., Maryland. 21. Peyton N. Page, Esq., of Gloucester Court House, Virginia. 22. Dr. John R. Page, University of Virginia. 23. William N. Page, Esq., of Cumberland County. Virginia. 24. John Page, Esq., Oakland, Hanover County, Virginia. 25. Miss Lucy M. F. Page, Washington City, D. C. 26. Carter PL Page, Esq., Albemarle Co., Virginia. 27. Judge John E. Page, Clarke Co., Virginia. 28. Fred. ]\L Page, Sewanee, Franklin Co., Tennessee. 29. John Page, Buenos Ayres, South America. 30. Samuel H. Pendleton, New York City. 31. Mrs. W. N. Pendleton, Lexington, Rockbridge Co., Virginia. 32. Mrs. D. Coupland Randolph. Cumberland Co., Virginia. 33. Francis R. Rives, Esq., New York City. 34. William C. Rives, Esq., Newport, R. L 35. Mrs. Lucy B. P. Saunders, Washington City, D. C. 36. Stephen Tucker, Royal College of Heraldry, London. Information in some cases was obtained from the ''History of Bristol Parish, (Dinwiddle Co., Virginia,) by Rev. Philip Slaughter, of Virginia, and the " History of St. Mark's Parish,'' (Culpepper Qp., Virginia,) by the same author. Bishop Meade's book, entitled " Old Churches and Families of Virgijiia,'' has also been found useful, and reference to it is fre- quently made in the earlier portions of the genealogies of several families. For the purpose of ascertaining the parentage of Col. John Page, progenitor of the Page family in Virginia, an exact copy of the coat-of-arms and inscription on the original tombstone was taken by John Draddy, a sculptor, of New York City, when he was at Williamsburg, Virginia, in the month of January, 1878, superin- : PREFACE. IQ new monument over the grave of Col. tending the erection of the Draddy and acknowledged Pat The copy was certified to by Mr. whose authority m turn was certmed bv°him before a Notarv Public, County of New York. The papers b™he Clerk of theCity and t Consul res.dmg m the City of then certified to by the British were Majesty- Pur- Stephen Tucker, Her s Xew York, and forwarded to College of Heraldry. V.ctor.a ^uWant-It^arms, Rougecroi., Royal London, E. C. (East Centre). St coats-of-arms of the all alleged crests and It is evident that do not correspond in outlme w,th Pa»e family of Virginia, which tombstone of Col. John Page, Esq at fhose found on the original are utterly worthl .., Wmiamsburg, James City Co.. Virginia, furniture, or any other wh h" they exist on spoons, candlesticks, doubt, through the want whatever. They originated, no Tub'tance on tne and a consequent lack of mtelhgence of proper investigation, of Mr. Draddy's certificate, and '"''^The following is an exact copy others Draddy. Sculpror, re- : That I, John Know all men bv these presents York State of New Wk, City of New York. County of New siding in the known, certify, declare and make and United States of America, do hereby PREFACE. II that the above drawing representing a coat-of-arms is a true and exact copy, made and executed by me, of a coat-of-arms on the old tombstone situated in the vestibule of the Episcopal Church, Parish of Bruton, City of Williamsburg, County of James City, State of Virginia, and United States of America; and that the following is a true and exact copy of the inscription upon the iforesaid tombstone, to wit: 'Here lieth in hope of a Joyful! Resurection the Body of Colonel John- Page, of Bruton Parish, Esquire, One of their Majesties Council in the Do- minion of Virginia. Who Departed this life the 23 of January in the year of our Lord 69^. Aged 65.' I furthermore certify that, in my opinion, some numeral belonging to the date 69^4 has been obliterated by an injury sustained by the said tombstone. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ist day of February, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-nine.