Richard Bland

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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. Jefferson said of his pamphlet: "There was more sound matter in his pamphlet than in the celebrated Farmer's letters."[4]

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  1. ↑ Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 2
  2. ↑ Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
  3. ↑ The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
  4. ↑ Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 August 1815

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Categories: [United States History]

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