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In former times several Pages lived in Albemarle. In
1770 Robert Page purchased from Hezekiah Inman four
hundred acres on Taylor's Creek, near the border of what is
now Nelson. His children were James, William, Robert,
George, Samuel, Nicholas, Jane, the wife of Burgess Griffin,
Mary, the wife of Sherrard Griffin, and Elizabeth, the wife of
Peter Davis, of Hanover. All of these emigrated to Adair
County, Kentucky, except William, and Nicholas, who died
in 1817. In 1829 Nicholas M. Page, son of the younger
Robert, returned to Albemarle, where for some years he prosecuted
business as a merchant in Batesville, and achieved the
notable task of administering the great estate of Samuel Miller.
He was a magistrate under the old regime, having been
appointed in 1841. He still lives, a venerable memorial of a
former generation. A William Page was the owner of land
below Milton, and of Lot Forty in Charlottesville, in the
early part of the century. When he sold the lot in 1815, he
was described as a citizen of Nelson. He may have been the
William mentioned above.
Dr. Mann Page, son of Major Carter Page, of Cumberland,
came to the county about 1815. In that year he was united
in marriage to Jane Frances, daughter of Francis Walker.
His home was at Turkey Hill, a part of the Castle Hill place,
which his wife inherited from her father. Dr. Page was appointed
a magistrate of the county in 1824, and died in 1850.
His children were Maria, Ella, Jane, Charlotte, William,
Francis W., Carter H., Frederick W., Mann, Thomas W.,
and Dr. R. Channing, of New York.
