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'''Richard Bland''' was an American statesman, farmer, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, delegate to the [[Continental Congress]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tfEMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA244 Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 2]</ref> a cousin of [[Thomas Jefferson]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c4VT7_0NbxUC&pg=PA94 Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History]</ref> and was acknowledged as Virginia's expert on the [[Rights of Englishmen]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-ofqWZ-b1cC&pg=PA117 The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America]</ref>

'''Richard Bland''' was an American statesman, farmer, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, delegate to the [[Continental Congress]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tfEMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA244 Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 2]</ref> a cousin of [[Thomas Jefferson]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c4VT7_0NbxUC&pg=PA94 Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History]</ref> and was acknowledged as Virginia's expert on the [[Rights of Englishmen]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-ofqWZ-b1cC&pg=PA117 The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America]</ref>

Bland is well known for his pamphlet ''An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies''.  Jefferson said of his pamphlet: "There was more sound matter in his pamphlet than in the celebrated Farmer's letters."

Bland is well known for his pamphlet ''An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies''.  Jefferson said of his pamphlet: "There was more sound matter in his pamphlet than in the celebrated Farmer's letters."<ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0523 Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 August 1815]</ref>

==See also==

==See also==