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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 | + | '''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''. | + | 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." |
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania]] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
| − | + | {{reflist}} | |
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 06:39, December 12, 2021
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. Jefferson said of his pamphlet: "There was more sound matter in his pamphlet than in the celebrated Farmer's letters."