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A Record of the BAGE Family History The American Connection Sometime between 1607, the year Jamestown was settled in the colony of Virginia, and 1681, at least one Bage made his way to the new world. He is mentioned as Thomas Bage, who lived in Surry County, Virginia in 1681. On 20 October 1688, Thomas was awarded a royal land grant of 290 acres in the upper part of Surry County under the certificate of Mr Edward Chilton.SURRY COUNTY, June 15, 1681.—Wm. Rogers bound apprentice to Thomas Bage to serve till 21—his master to teach him his trade of blacksmith, and to read & wright, &c. Source;- “Education in Colonial Virginia. Part I: Poor Children and Orphans.” Author; Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Citation; William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine 4 (April 1897): 219-23. The Bage's are mentioned throughout the next century in court documents and in church registers. On 10 May 1773, the death of William Bage, a justice of the peace in Accomack County, VA, is recorded. He is listed previously as Wm. Bagg on 19 Oct. 1762, as William Bagg on 23 Oct. 1767, as William Bagge on both 1 Feb. 1771, and 9 May 1772, and finally as William Bage upon his death. On the 24 Dec 1793, Thomas Bage, Jr., was married to Elizabeth Hart by the Rev'd Samuel Butler, rector of Southwark Parish Episcopal Church. In the Surry County census of 1784, Sen. Thomas Bage is listed as having a household of 2 white souls, 1 dwelling and 4 other buildings. In 1787, Thomas Bage, Sr., is listed in a Surry County census as owning negroes Ned and Silvy (stated as being over 16 years of age) and Jimmy, Poll, Cupid, Simon, Peg, John, Dick and Nancy (stated as being under 16 years of age). On 28 July 1818, Thomas W Bage was married to Lucy B. King by a Methodist minister. This apparently was not a long marriage as Thomas W Bage is recorded on 17 Feb 1827, as marrying Mary S Jones in York County, VA. In the 1810 census of the State of Virginia, George Bage is listed in Rockbridge County as having a household of one male, aged 26-45, two females under the age of 10, one female aged 16-26 and one slave. In the census of 1820, there are mentioned J.Bage, Ro.S. Bage and Thomas W Bage, all of Southampton County, Town of Surry. In 1840's census, John H Bage is listed as residing in Surry and Robert Bage is a resident of Isle of Wight, VA. The 1850 census in Virginia lists William Bage in Surry as the owner of 2 slaves. It is said that at the end of the Civil War, the Bage family still operated a plantation on the James River in Surry and that they owned slaves. Perhaps one of the more interesting stories is of two brothers, William and Robert Bage, who went to the U.S. from England to make their fortune. They arrived in New York City in 1810 and made their way to Washington, DC. They are said to have been unhappy there and made the decision to return to England. About this time, William met and married Mary Ann Foxton, the daughter of a plasterer employed at the White House. When that structure was burned by the British in the War of 1812, the story is that William worked with his father-in-law to help restore it. William's brother Robert went into Virginia from Washington. Nothing more was heard of him by William that we know of. William and Mary moved to Niles, Michigan, where their youngest son, Theodore, was born in 1837. At the age of 52, Theodore fathered Ellis Reginald Bage (b. 27 Nov 1889). He, in turn, fathered Earl Amos Bage, who was born on 15 Feb 1925 in Jefferson County, Missouri, the place of his father's birth before him. Earl and his family today live in Missouri, Kansas and Texas. The following is from 'Biographies from Goodspeed's History of Jefferson County' ;- William E. Bage, a plasterer and farmer of Central Township, Jackson Co., Mo., was born in Washington, D. C., in 1819, the eldest of ten children born to William and Mary (Foxton) Bage. William Bage, Sr., was born in England, and when about twenty-one years of age came to the United States, and located in Washington, D. C., where he married Miss Foxton, who was born in that city in 1801. Mr. Bage worked under his father-in-law, William Foxton, as plasterer, and afterward succeeded him as superintendent of the Public Plastering Works of Washington City, holding the position until 1833, when he moved to South Bend, Ind., and a year later to Michigan, and in 1840 to Jefferson County, Mo., where he spent the remainder of his life. He learned the plasterer's trade in England, and worked at the trade after coming to Jefferson County. The mother died when about eighty years of age, and the father five years later. They were both members of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Bage's father was also an Englishman by birth, but when a young man came to the United States, locating in Alexandria, Va. He superintended the plastering of the first public building in the City of Washington. The immediate subject of this sketch came with his parents to Missouri, and here has since made his home. He learned the plasterer's trade of his father, and has followed that occupation in St. Louis, and in Jefferson and the adjoining counties. He owns 220 acres of land besides the old homestead. He is a Democrat in politics and his first presidential vote was cast for Van Buren in 1840. Mr. Bage is an honest upright man, and a good citizen of the county Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia Vol II Aug 3, 1699 - April 27, 1705 published by the Virginia State Library, Ed. H.R. McIlwaine Richmond 1927 p. 41; p. 154 P. 41 Order for trial of Jamey, an indian slave belonging to the Estate of Thos. Bage, cty of Surrey, on March 5, 1699 (Council of 2/22/99 at James City) P. 154 "In Aprill Generall Court 1700 John Ide for Ye Murder of Thomas Bage of Surrey County. Condemned and was afterwards executed. Soldiers and Sailors in the American Revolution Section V of the Magazine of American Genealogy 1929 Chicago The Institute of American Genealogy. Frederick Adams Virkus, F.I.A.G. Ed. lists James Bage, Private, Mynderse's Co., Wemple's Regt., N.Y. State Troops (Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York). Bage, Robert - served two months, Capt John Brent's Company, Va. Cnt. Line, 1776. (V.A. - Soldiers of 1776). From 'Civil War Diary of James Henry Darr' Fri June 12 12 o'clock. Vicksburg, Charleston, East Ten. (On Web-site)..........Maj. Bage died last night of Flux.....
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