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From: "Mathew A. Page" <>
Subject: [Pafayett-L] Re: Early PAGE family of Connellsville PA
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:54:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010707133313.01c9a2f0@mail.hhs.net>


Joseph Page Sr. mentioned below is in my direct line and I thought I would
add some infromation and also clear up some errors that I have found in the
below text.

Joseph Page Sr. was indeed a Jersey Man. He was born ca. 1743. He lived in
the Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ area. Although Joseph was very
prosperous, for uncertain reasons he decided to sell his land in New Jersey
and move West. Between May 5, 1800 and Oct. 9, 1800 Joseph Page and wife
Ann (Robins) Page sold their land in Monmouth County - about 660 acres. Some
of these deeds were withnessed by his son Joseph Jr.

Sometime after Oct 9, 1800 Joseph Page began his migration to the "Redstone
Settlement" in Western Pennsylvania. On December 1, 1800 Joseph Page
purchased lot number 114 in Connellsville. This was his first noted land
purchase in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. On April 16, 1801 Joseph Page Sr
purchased 6 additional lots from his son-in-law Zachariah Connell. He also
bought the Confidence tract (see below)

One of the possible reasons that Joseph Page Sr. left New Jersy was possibly
that his son, The Rev. William Page (a ME circuit rider) married Mariah
Connell, the daughter of Zachariah Connell, founder of Connellsville.
William first purchased land in April 23, 1800 - about 94 acres, which was
part of the Mt. Vernon tract in Fayette.

Joseph Page Sr. did have at least 7 children -
1. Timothy (who was the one who stayed in NJ), had purchased land from his
father in the Toms River (now Ocean Co, NJ) area.

2. Joseph Jr (who moved Smithfield area in Georges Twp. likely near the
Ashcraft clan, which later his grandchildren married into that family after
they migrated to Ohio). MY LINE.

3. John - later moved to Adams Co., OH....a very illusive fellow. Possibly
married a Rebecca HEAP. Daughter Margaret married the Rev. Richard Crozier
of Ripley, Brown Co., an Irishman and another ME minister

4. Jonathan - a shoemaker. Lived in Connellsville. d. 1844/45. I would love
to find out where he is buried! Does anyone know the significance to the old
stone house on Meadow Alley - does this still exist of are old pics
around??? He married in NJ Rebekah Budd - another Jersey family. It was his
daughter Rebecca Page who married D.S. Knox of Brownsville, quite a
prominent fellow. There son was Philander Chase Knox, who later became
Secretary of State 1909-1913 under President Taft. Was also an US Attorney
General 1901-1904 and US Senator 1904-1909 and 1921. His parents and mother
are buried in Redstone Cem.


5. Rev. William Page - married Mariah Connell, daughter of Zachariah
Connell. Moved to Adams Co., OH and then to Clermont Co., OH
In 1792 William, at the request of one of the preachers, went around on the
Trenton circuit. After this, he filled the place of one of the preachers,
disabled by affliction, on the Burlington circuit, until the next annual
conference, which was held in Philadelphia in 1793, at which he was admitted
on trial as a traveling preacher, and appointed to Dover circuit, in the
state of Delaware.
In 1794, he was appointed to Dorchester;
1795 to Baltimore circuit; 1796, he was admitted into full connection,
ordained a Deacon, and appointed to Clarksburgh circuit.
In 1803 William Page to the Pittsburgh circuit (part of the Baltimore
Conference). He continued in that circuit through 1804-5, with the
assistance of Rev. William Knox, an ordained elder and close family friend.
In 1803, 1804 he preached Smithfield St. ME Church IN Pittsburgh. There he
spoke an evening after a morning service Bishop Asbury preached!
In 1805 and 1807 he was a local circuit rider in the Redstone Circuit.
In 1808 he had an appointment in The Baltimore Conference, Monogahela
District, serving in the Thomas Church in Ohio (WHERE IS THIS?) He
continued as a traveling circuit rider in the Baltimore Conferences until
1809, when the care of a growing family caused him again to locate back
closer to his family in Connellsville
In 1820 he again entered the traveling connection. In 1820 he was on the
White Oak Circuit in Sardinia, Washington Township, Brown County, Ohio. He
continued the traveling connection till his death; for several years of the
latter part of his life he sustained a superannuated relation to the Ohio
Conference

6. Hannah Page - married John Hood, and irishman and also moved to Adams
Co., OH very early in 1806.

7. Samuel Page - apparently lived and died in Connellsville as well.
Apparently ran a hotel/tavern in Connellsville. owned the Banning Property
on Water Street and old stone tavern on East Main Street. Again are these
places still standing or does anyone know of old pictures in existance??


That I guess is enough for now. I would love to hear from anyone with PAGE
family connections in PA and OH.
http://pages.prodigy.net/mapage/homepage/

Mathew Page
Jackson, MI



-----Original Message-----
From: Jane McCann Walsh [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 1:35 PM
To:
Subject: [Pafayett-L] early PAGE family of Connellsville


Hi, again, Folks,
In that same Centennial History of Connellsville on pp. 56-57:

"Among the more influential citizens of Connellsville, prior to 1806, in
addition to those whose names have been mentioned, were Daniel ROGERS
George MATHIOT, Samuel and Caleb TREVOR, Benjamin WELLS, David BARNES,
Anthony MANSFIELD, Banning and Joseph PAGE, Sr. Joseph Page, Sr. was a
Jersey man, who came to Connellsville in 1801, and , on October 26th of
that year, purchased the "Confidence" tract of 302 acres from Zachariah
CONNELL for [lbs sterling?] 536. This tract was located along the river
immediately south of the "Mud Island" tract, and embraced the larger part
of the ground now occupied by the Baltimore and Ohio yards. At the upper
end of this tract he erected a mill, the race for which was more than a
quarter of a mile in length. Mr. Page was the father of seven children ---
Jonathan, John , Samuel, Joseph Jr., William Rebecca and Mary. Jonathan
Page was a shoemaker and lived and died in the old stone house on Meadow
Alley. Samuel Page purchased the old homestead in 1814, but sold it a few
years later to the GIBSONS, bought the old BANNING property on Water street
and lived there for a number of years. He also kept the old stone tavern on
east Main Street. William Page became a Methodist minister, married a
daughter of Zachariah Connell, and removed to Ohio. Joseph Page, Jr., lived
and died in New Jersey. Miss Rebecca Page married D.S. KNOX, and became the
mother of Senator Philander C. Knox."

Regards,
Jane


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