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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> |
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Latest revision as of 06:42, 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."[4]