Richard Bland

Richard Bland is seated at the bottom left

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]

## See also[edit]

* Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies