We are not going on our trip to the East Coast after all, so will be home. The poor old Suburban truck engine died, so we'll be spending our trip money on a new one to keep it going for another 225,000 miles. Hubby purchased a new computer and gave me his Pentium, so now I can write messages on my new/used computer directly to the Internet. Those who wish to contact me please use the following E-Mail address instead of the old one: dcr555@prodigy.net The local BB through which I was receiving my messages may quit soon. Anyone interested in my abstracts of the Goochland Co., VA records for the PAGE Family and new Census book for PAGE families in all of the VA counties, 1790-1850, can contact me on my Prodigy address above to request a list of them and their prices. If anyone is interested in further posts on the Goochland Co., VA PAGE families to continue my previous ten-part posts, let me know and I'll carry those lines down at least one more generation on PAGE-L. Dolores

Ancestry search results for surname Page.....connie Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 5 ISSUE BY FIRST MARRIAGE SAMUEL FOGG of Hampton, New Hampshire; b. 20th February, 1600; d. 16th April 1672; m. (firstly) 12th October, 1652, Anne SHAW, b. 1636, d. 1661, dau. of Roger and Anne SHAW of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hampshire; he b. Monday, 26th August, 1594, London; bapt. St. Peter's (Cornhill) Sunday, 1st September, 1594; m. (second) 28th December, 1665, Mary PAGE. JOHN MOSELEY MORIARTY, A.B., A.M., of Boston, Massachusetts; b. in 1807; d. October, 1865. A.B., A.M., Brown University; M.D., of Harvard; was Port Physician of Boston, 1849-1864; m. 1834, Nancy Page ANDREWS, dau. of John Hancock and Nancy (PAGE) ANDREWS, of Salem, Massachusetts, descended from the ANDREWS, GLOVER, PAGE, PUTNAM and HATHORNE families of Salem. 1. William, b. 1712; m. 1735 or 1745, Maria Judith PAGE, only dau. of Hon. Mann and Judith (WORMELEY) PAGE 1. Mary CARY, m. (as his first wife) Maj. Carter PAGE, of the Fork, Cumberland County, Virginia.

Just a note, perhaps of interest: The American's Creed can be found in the Boy Scout Handbook. When counselling the Citizenship in the Nation merit badge, I always have the boys read the Creed. I also warn them that if I'm on their Eagle Board of Review, that I'll ask them about it. It is a wonderful affirmation of what it means to be an American citizen. Tonight I'm going to insert a copy of slworley@theshop.net's wonderful write-up about the creed and William Tyler Page into my handbook, so I can share it with my Scouts. Barb Chapman Assistant Scoutmaster BSA Troop 351, Rochester, MI bchapman@ri-exp.beaumont.edu

As requested here is the wonderfull story about William Tyler Page and the story behind the man that wrote the American Creed: The American's Creed was written by : William Tyler Page, who was the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, when he wrote "The American's Creed" in 1917. It was accepted by the House on behalf of the American people on April 3, 1918. "The American's Creed" author 'William Tyler Page' April 3, 1918 "I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principals of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love it; to support its constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." William Tyler Page, 1918. Historical Notes: The American's Creed was a result of a nationwide contest for writing a National Creed, which would be a brief summary of the American political faith founded upon things fundamental in American history and tradition. The contest was the idea of Henry Sterling Chapin, Commissioner of Education of New York State. Over three thousand entries were received, and William Tyler Page was declared to be the winner. James H. Preston, the mayor of Baltimore, presented an award to Page in the House of Representatives Office Building on April 3, 1918. The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the commissioner of education of the state of New York accepted the Creed for the United States, and the proceedings relating to the award were printed in the Congressional Record of April 13, 1918. It was a time when patriotic sentiments were very much in vogue. The United States had been a participant in World War I only a little over a year at the time the Creed was adopted. The author of the American's Creed, William Tyler Page, was a descendant of John Page, who had come to America in1650 and had settled in Williamsburg, Virginia. Another ancestor, Carter Braxton , had signed the Declaration of Independence. Still another ancestor, John Tyler, was the tenth president of the United States. William Tyler Page had come to Washington at the age of thirteen to serve as a Capitol Page. Later he became an employee of the Capitol building and served in that capacity for almost sixty-one years. In 1919 he was elected clerk of the House. Thirteen years later, when the Democrats again became a majority party, they created for Page the office of minority clerk of the House of Representatives. He held this position for the remainder of his life. Referring to the Creed, Page said: "It is the summary of the fundamental principles of the American political faith as set forth in its greatest documents, its worthiest traditions, and its greatest leaders." His wording of the Creed used passages and phrases from the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Daniel Webster's reply to Robert Y. Hayne in the Senate in 1830. To: slworley@theshop.net Thank you for putting together information regarding William Tyler Page on your homepage. He was my great-grandfather and it's wonderful to share this with my own children. Janet Rossini "I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. "I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." -----Original Message----- From: George W. Page Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 11:55 AM To: PAGE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAGE-L] William Tyler Page At 12:47 AM 5/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hi everyone; >I just joined the Daughters of the American Revolution and I was given a >booklet and in it is the American's Creed written by William Tyler Page. >Does anyone know anything on this gentleman? > >Sincerely, >Sara Greer I believe William Tyler Page was descended from the Virginia line of Col. John Page, but I can't easily find him in the source book of that line because of its lack of a suitable index! George W. Page ==== PAGE Mailing List ==== To subscribe to Larry Stephens' Regional lists, covering all parts of the USA, go to http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm

I have just realized that my Thomas Page b. 1770's NC is probably the son of Solomon Page, the revolutionary war soldier from Bertie Co.,NC, who d. in the1820's in Washington Co., GA. I believe this Solomon was the son of Thomas Page, Jr, son of Thomas Page, son of John Page and Elizabeth Busby. I am trying to find someone who has studied this family and might be able to help me out. Does anyone know what happened to this Solomon Page after he left Bertie Co.? Connee

Folks, please forgive me for this method of spreading the word about a scam going around. I retired from BellSouth after 31 years service and can vouch for the attached message. It's principle purpose ( you had to be served from an electronic central office) was to allow a subscriber to dial a service code from a phone to allow a long distance call to be charged to his/her home phone. M. Dean Hunt Louisville, KY Thought you might like to know this..................... From: Robin L. Browne I received a telephone call from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician who was conducting a test on our telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test we should touch nine (9), zero (0), the pound sign (#) and then hang up. Luckily, we were suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the telephone company we were informed that by pushing 90# you give the requesting individual full access to your telephone line, which allows them to place a long distance telephone calls billed to your home phone number. We were further informed that this scam has been originating from many of the local jails/prisons. I have also verified this information with UCB Telecomm. Please beware. This sounds like an Urban Legend - IT IS NOT!!! I further called GTE Security this morning and verified that this is definitely possible. DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE. The GTE Security department requested that I share this information with EVERYONE I KNOW!!! Could you PLEASE pass this on. If you have mailing lists and/or newsletters from organizations you are connected with, I encourage you to pass on this information. Note from Sue - this is very real!! We got the same message from internal Telecommunications at 3M - they notified me as the receptionist as some of the 3M locations were being hit. It is very real, and one of the local companies here had over $3000 added to their phone bill. My friend Vic sent this to me, so watch out. Bob G.

Taken from headstones at the Taylor Cemetary, Alder, Madison County, MT. Samuel B. Paige 1841-1923 Lucinda M. Paige 1854-1904 Montana Pioneers Wilber S. Paige Dec. 25, 1877 Dec. 16 , 1952 Warner L. Paige May 7, 1879 Oct. 16, 1957 Charles A. Paige 1882-1962 Henry W. Paige 1888-1976 Donald W. Paige Mar. 12, 1922 Sept. 27, 1947

>From the book "1805 Georgia Land Lottery" by Virginia S. and Ralph V. Wood, The Greenwood Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1964, Page 234, list the following: Name County Meadows, Daniel Meadows Greene , Isham Sr Greene , Isham Jr Greene , James Greene , John (Stephens Creek) Greene , William Greene , William Greene Medows , Daniel Greene , Dyce Greene , Isaac Oglethorpe Page , Allen Burke , Jacob Jefferson , James Hancock , Jesse Hancock , Lemuel Jefferson , Lewis Hancock , Sevil (sp?) Elbert , Soloman Washington , Thomas Washington , Whilie Montgomery , William Elbert , William Franklin , Wilson Washington ramdogg sends

Page, James J. 1860 Washington Co. Will Book B Pg. 140 " , Joseph 1814 Chatham Will Book E Pg. 226 " , William 1827 Glynn Will Book D Pg. 157 " , William 1856 Forsyth Will Book A Pg. 7 ramdogg send

I have discovered a cache of Page tintypes (in my own basement, no less) that are the first real clues I have on my husband's Page line. They are labeled with names only, no dates or places, but I suspect all three generations were in Kentucky, and at least the most recent was definitely in Woodville and Kevil, McCracken Co, KY. Does anyone recognize these names? Starting from most recent: MINNIE LOUISE PAGE, b. KY (probably McCracken Co.)19 Dec., 1871 m. Shelby Lovell Dale, 12 March, 1893, near Woodville, KY. She had about 12 younger siblings, but the only names I have are Will (who died at age 44 in Woodville of typhoid fever) and Russell. Minnie's parents: JAMES WILLIAM PAGE (prob. b. about 1858 ) and Hepsy Lucinda Taylor. Hepsy Lucinda had a twin sister, Margaret Clarinda Taylor Morgan. Another portrait is of IRENE BERTHA PAGE TREVOLLA(?)--may be James William's sister. There are also tintypes of two young boys, WILLIAM ROBERT PAGE and CHARLES WALTER PAGE, J.W.'s brothers, perhaps? James William Page's parents (b. abt. 1830-35): WILLIAM JOHNSON PAGE and Louisa Jane Sanders Does anyone know how late tintypes were made? All of these portraits are on tin except one of James William and Hepsy Lucinda as young adults. That one is a photograph on cardboard. Karen Dale KDale60909@aol.com

It seems strange to be answering my own query, but after very few responses and further research here goes! I found in the NY Fed. Census for 1810 (only one year proceeding the painter's birth) only two Page family entries --- Levi Page and Levi Page, Sr.. [I was disappointed to also find that the census records for that county were missing from my Automated Archives, Inc. CD-ROMs for the next couple of censuses! Does anyone have Albany Co. NY Fed. Census records of Pages for 1820 and 1830?] I found that a Levi Page who m. (2?) Tamer (Gale) Dunnel were indeed the parents of the famous painter, William Page. Another bio. of the painter provides additional info about him: William Page, the American Painter, m. (1) Lavinia Twihill and had three children. They were divorced. He m. (2) Sara A. Dougherty and in 1844 went to Boston from N.Y.C.. He divorced her and m. (3) in Italy in 1858 Sophia S. Hitchcock and by her had six children. He lived the last years of his life at Eagleswood, NJ, and died at Tottenville, Staten Island, NY at age 74. Now trying to place the Levi Pages to find his father's ancestry: I have in the George Page of Branford, Conn. line a Levi Page, b. c. 1770 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Conn. who went to Conway, Mass. [per Jacobus]. This later Levi Page was the son of Theophilus and Mehitabel (Merriman) Page of Wallingford, Conn.. I have nothing further on him. Cemetery Records found in the N.S.D.A.R. show a Levi Page who d. 16 May 1809 at age 49; i.e., b.c. 1760. This Levi could not have been the father unless they were doing artificial insemination at that time! There was another Levi Page, b. 3 Feb. 1772 in Coventry, Tolland Co., Conn., who was the son of Thomas 4 and Azubah (Strong) Page of the line of John Page of Haverhill through Thomas 3, Cornelius 2, and John 1 Page. The first mentioned Thomas Page went to Coventry in 1746 and was the progenitor of the Pages in that town. There is no info as to what happened to this Levi Page, but only his brothers Elias and Gad Page remained in Coventry, Conn. and had children. Gad Page, b. 5 March 1764, d. as a Captain on 26 Jan. 1841, m. Abigail Loomis on 27 Nov. 1788 in Coventry and received a pension for service as a Pvt. in a Conn. unit in the Rev. War. Elias Page, b. 22 Oct. 1761, m. Ester Kingsbury on 2 Mar. 1786 in Coventry. My gut feeling is that this latter Levi Page of Coventry, Tolland Co., Conn. may have been the Levi Page who was the father of the famous American Painter, William Page. ConPutnam <ConPutnam@aol.com> wrote: Message-ID: <e0039f4c.3563c2b5@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 01:59:15 EDT To: gwpage@erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Regarding William Page Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi George....I found reference to this book during a search of the Stanford Library system and thought you might be able to get it through inter library loan? or perhaps its at Lof C if you ever use their library? I like the title, The American Titian.....and seems as if there is a biography that might give you some of the details of his life? ..... connie AUTHOR: Taylor, Joshua Charles, 1917- TITLE: William Page, the American Titian. IMPRINT: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1957] xxiii, 292 p. illus., ports. 28 cm. LOCATION: Art ND237.P17T39 1957 I shall heed Connie's suggestion and try and obtain the book through library loan, and see if my "gut feeling" pans out. George W. Page _________________ Original Query: Does anyone have the parents or ancestry of the following American Painter? William Page (b. Jan. 23, 1811, Albany, N.Y., U.S.--d. Oct. 1, 1885, Tottenville, Staten Island, N.Y.), American painter known for his sedate portraits of prominent mid-19th-century Americans and Britons. Page was trained and initially influenced by the famed inventor and Romantic painter Samuel F.B. Morse. From 1849 to 1860 he lived in Rome, where he painted portraits of friends such as Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. His best-known works, "Self-Portrait" (1860; Detroit Institute of Arts) and "Portrait of Mrs. William Page" (1860-61; Detroit Institute of Arts), typify the serene dignity of his likenesses, his monumental and sculptural handling of the figure, and his use of warm, resonant tonalities of dark colors. All these stylistic hallmarks show Titian's influence upon him. [Source: 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica] George W. Page

In a message dated 5/20/98 5:35:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gwpage@erols.com writes: << [Source: 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica >> Thanks George....even if this is not a direct line, it adds such color to the Page families....And besides the good old Encyclopedia Britannica (which I'd forgotten about in this hi tech online age)....I've found that the WHO's WHO volumes, particularly regional ones can be another treasure chest. connie

I have an old set of encyclopedias, Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia, pub. 1931. In vol. xix, page 310 is this write-up of the above-named gentleman: Page, William (1811-85), American portrait & historical painter, born at Albany, NY . He studied under Samuel F.B. Morse and at the National Academy of Design, and was elected a National Academician in 1836. He sojourned (1849-60) in Rome, and was an intimate friend of the Brownings, whose portraits he painted. He was president of the National School of Design (1871-73), and was a leading figure in literary and artistic circles. In addition to numerous portraits he painted Farragut at the Battle of Mobile, a Holy Family, and The Young Merchants. Emma Gene Gentry

Does anyone have the parents or ancestry of the following American Painter? William Page (b. Jan. 23, 1811, Albany, N.Y., U.S.--d. Oct. 1, 1885, Tottenville, Staten Island, N.Y.), American painter known for his sedate portraits of prominent mid-19th-century Americans and Britons. Page was trained and initially influenced by the famed inventor and Romantic painter Samuel F.B. Morse. From 1849 to 1860 he lived in Rome, where he painted portraits of friends such as Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. His best-known works, "Self-Portrait" (1860; Detroit Institute of Arts) and "Portrait of Mrs. William Page" (1860-61; Detroit Institute of Arts), typify the serene dignity of his likenesses, his monumental and sculptural handling of the figure, and his use of warm, resonant tonalities of dark colors. All these stylistic hallmarks show Titian's influence upon him. [Source: 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica] George W. Page

Hi, William Tyler Page did in fact descend from the Col. John Page branch of the Page family. He as you mention, was the author of the American Creed. I have some detailed information about his life, occupation, and how he won the contest relating to the selection of the American Creed. I have just searched in vain for the info, but will continue and post all the info I have on him. He was quite a gentleman, and the story about him is interesting. I will send another posting after I am successful in my search........ John R. Van Fechtmann By the way George, while looking for info in regards to William Tyler Page , I've just ran across the Page - Nelson Society Reunion Documentation and was quite impressed with your contribution to the newsletter. -----Original Message----- From: SJGreer30 Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 12:47 AM To: PAGE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAGE-L] William Tyler Page Hi everyone; I just joined the Daughters of the American Revolution and I was given a booklet and in it is the American's Creed written by William Tyler Page. Does anyone know anything on this gentleman? Sincerely, Sara Greer ==== PAGE Mailing List ==== Visit GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET - http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/internet.html

Looking for info on Elizabeth PAGE b. 1804 d. 1871. Married to David Austin Starkweather. Son is Alexander hamilton Starkweather b 1845. Any info appreciated - thanks! Trudy Drew fdrew@jeffnet.org

Can anyone help with date and place of birth and parents of Thomas PAGE, b about 1721based on GSI, location unknown, d. Walpole 22 Apr 1786. M. Sarah ROBBINS of Walpole 8 Sep 1741, dau of Ebenezer and Mary Fales. Thomas and Sarah had 9 chn. Until something factual is found re above, I am interested in theories anyone has regarding Thomas' origins.

Don, I wrote you this morning regarding the email on the Page family. Do you have any information on William Page's ancestors? I have his father listed as John Page married to Nancy Humphrey. John's parents were William Page and Elizabeth Jones. Do you have any information on William that was married to Elizabeth Jones? He is my "wall" and it is my understanding that he could be one of many William's in this time period. Any information is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced for the snail mail information. Lynda Troutt Murphy

At 12:47 AM 5/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hi everyone; >I just joined the Daughters of the American Revolution and I was given a >booklet and in it is the American's Creed written by William Tyler Page. >Does anyone know anything on this gentleman? > >Sincerely, >Sara Greer I believe William Tyler Page was descended from the Virginia line of Col. John Page, but I can't easily find him in the source book of that line because of its lack of a suitable index! George W. Page