Colonial Meriwether Families - Person Sheet
Colonial Meriwether Families - Person Sheet
NameRichard Bland Jr. 
551, M
551, MBirth06 May 1710, Orange County, Virginia
Death26 Oct 1776, Williamsburg, Virginia562 Age: 66
BurialJordon Point Plantation, Jordan Point Manor, Prince George County, Virginia
EducationWilliam & Mary College
Web LinkCongressional Biography: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000543
FlagsNotable, Volume 1
FatherRichard Bland , M (1665-1720)
MotherElizabeth Randolph , F (1680-1720)
Research notes for Richard Bland Jr.
ggg-granddaughter Elise Bland Hinton married Thomas Selden Macon.
Reference notes for Richard Bland Jr.
Bland, Richard (1710-1776) Uncle of Theodorick Bland. Born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774. Died October 26, 1776. Interment in private or family graveyard. Bland County, Va. is named for him. 552
Reference notes for Richard Bland Jr.
BLAND, Richard, 1710-1776
Congressional Biography 551
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
DAB; Detweiler, Robert C. Richard Bland: Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1968; Rossiter, Clinton L. Richard Bland: The Whig in America. William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 10 (January 1953): 33-79.
Congressional Biography 551
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
DAB; Detweiler, Robert C. Richard Bland: Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1968; Rossiter, Clinton L. Richard Bland: The Whig in America. William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 10 (January 1953): 33-79.