Name: va_families -- Some Early Virginia Families

Updated: 08-03-2020 18:08:01. Owner: Diana Diamond


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Richard Bland: Birth: 3 MAR 1730/31 in Virginia. Death: 25 JAN 1786

  2. Elizabeth Bland: Birth: 17 MAR 1732/33 in ~Virginia. Death: AFT 1791 in ~Virginia

  3. Anne Bland: Birth: 15 AUG 1735 in ~Virginia. Death: AFT 1788

  4. Peter Randolph Bland: Birth: FEB 1736/37 in Prince Georges County, Virginia. Death: 9 FEB 1781 in Amelia County, Virginia

  5. John Bland: Birth: 17 OCT 1739. Death: DEC 1794

  6. Mary Bland: Birth: 15 JAN 1740/41 in Virginia.

  7. William Bland: Birth: 16 DEC 1742 in Prince George County, Virginia.

  8. Theodorick Bland: Birth: 28 DEC 1744 in Virginia.

  9. Edward Bland: Birth: 16 DEC 1746 in Prince George Co. Virginia. Death: AFT 1791 in [deed of that date]

  10. Sarah Bland: Birth: 19 SEP 1750 in "Jordans, " Prince George County, Virginia. Death: 13 MAY 1807

  11. Susan Bland: Birth: 20 FEB 1751/52 in ~Virginia.

  12. Lucy Bland: Birth: 22 SEP 1754 in ~Virginia.


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Sources
1. Title:   LVA
Page:   Bland, Cards 38-39
Author:   RBB
2. Title:   Chart of the Poythress Family of Virginia, Section A of two Sections
Author:   RBB
Publication:   State Library of Virginia Accession Number 29493

Notes
a. Note:   He was called either "The Virginia Antiquary" or simply "the Antiquarian ," for his work preserving early history of the Virginia.
  He would have signed the Declaration of Independence, but he became ill, a nd Francis Lightfoot Lee signed instead.(1]
  He was the author of many pamphlets prior to the revolution, some which a re considered by many to have formed part of the intellectual underpinnin gs of the war.
  Thomas Jefferson, the President, bought many of Richard Bland's Papers fr om his estate after his death.
 These papers are part of the collection now at the Library of Congress. S ome can be viewed on line.
  Thomas Jefferson and Richard Bland were first cousins once removed.
  --DD
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  Richard Bland member of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence in 177 3; took a leading part in the Revolutionary War; Member of the Continent al Congress in 1774 and 1775; again chosen, but declined to serve; memb er of the Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; died in Williamsbur g, Va., October 26, 1776; interment in a private cemetery on the Jordan Po int plantation, on the James River.
  Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
 Biographies
  -DD
  [1] Malone, Dumas, 1892- The story of the Declaration of independence / Bi centennial ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1975. 288 p. : il l. ; 29 cm.

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