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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaBLAND, Richard
(1710—1776)
BLAND, Richard, (uncle of Theodorick Bland), a Delegate from Virginia; born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710; completed preparatory studies; attended the College of William and Mary; member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1742-1775; member of the Virginia committee of correspondence in 1773; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775; again chosen, but declined to serve; member of the Virginia Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776; died in Williamsburg, Va., October 26, 1776; interment in a private cemetery on the Jordan Point plantation, on the James River.
Bibliography
Detweiler, Robert C. “Richard Bland: Conservator of Self-Government in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1968.
Bland, Richard. A Letter to the Clergy of Virginia, in Which the Conduct of the General-Assembly is Vindicated, Against the Reflexions Contained in a Letter to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, from the Lord-Bishop of London
. By Richard Bland, Esq.; One of the Representatives in Assembly for the County of Prince-George. Williamsburg, Va.: Printed by William Hunter, 1760.
Bland, Richard, and Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed. A Fragment on the Pistole Fee, Claimed by the Governor of Virginia, 1753
. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Historical Printing Club, 1891.
Bland, Richard, and Earl Gregg Swem, ed. An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies
. 1766. Reprint, Richmond, Va.: Reprinted by the Appeals Press, for the William Parks Club, 1922.
Detweiler, Robert C. “Richard Bland: Conservator of Self-Government in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1968.
Detweiler, Robert C., and Edward M. Riley, ed. Richard Bland and the Origins of the Revolution in Virginia
. Yorktown, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, [1981?].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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