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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> | ||
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Richard Bland was an American statesman, farmer, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, delegate to the Continental Congress,[1] a cousin of Thomas Jefferson,[2] and was acknowledged as Virginia's expert on the rights of Englishmen.[3]
Bland is well known for his pamphlet An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies.