Richard
Bland
II
Born in The Richard Bland House, Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, VA
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Bland Sr.
and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland
Brother of
Mary (Bland) Lee, Elizabeth (Bland) Beverley, Anna Randolph (Bland) Currie and Theodorick Bland
Husband of
Anne (Poythress) Bland
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Blair) Bland
— married
1759 in Colony of Virginia
Husband of
Martha Lucy (Macon) Bland
— married
1 Jan 1759 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Richard Bland III, Elizabeth Blair (Bland) Poythress, Ann Poythress (Bland) Prior, Peter Randolph Bland, John Bland, William Bland, Theodorick Bland, Edward Bland and Sarah (Bland) Goode
Died
at age 66
in Williamsburg, Virginia
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Biography
Richard Bland II was a Founding Father in the American Revolution.
Richard Bland II is Notable.
1720 -- both Richard's mother (January 22) and father (April 6) died. [1]
Richard Bland was married three times. He only had children from his first marriage to Anne Poythres who was the daughter of Peter Poythress. [2]
March 21, 1729 -- Richard Bland and Anne Poythress married at Jordan's Point, near Hopewell, Prince George county, Virginia. [3]
Richard and Anne Poythress Bland had 12 children: six sons and six daughters. [4]
1775-1776 - Richard Bland of Jordan's Point was a member of the old Congress [1]
Richard Bland II was buried at Jordan's Point on 'Thursday, November 7th 1776, aged 66." [5] [6]
The 11 children listed in the THE BLAND PAPERS were :
- Richard Bland , b . 20th Feb 1730-31.
- Elizabeth Bland, b. 17th March 1732-33
- Ann Bland , b. August 15 1735
- Peter Bland , b . February 2 1736-37, d. February 16th 1781
- John Bland, b. 19 October 1739 , deceased by 1840
- Mary Bland, b. 15 January 1740-41, deceased by 1840.
- William Bland, b. 26th December 1742
- Theodorick Bland, b. 28 September 1744, deceased by 1840.
- Edward Bland, b. (old style) 16 December 1746
- Sarah Bland, b. (old style) 19 September 1750
- Lucy Bland, b.( new style ) 22 September 1754 .
1774 -- delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. [7]
1775 -- delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. [8]
Legacy
Bland County, Virginia is named in his honor.
Sources
- ↑ Richard Bland. Wikipedia.
- ↑ Pg.147.Vol 1. THE BLAND PAPERS" BEING A SELECTION FROM MANUSCRIPTS OF COLONEL THEODORICK BLAND OF PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Edited by Campbell.Petersburg (1840) on Google Books.
- ↑ Richard Bland. Wikipedia.
- ↑ Tarter, B., & the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Richard Bland (1710–1776). (2013, July 16). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Bland_Richard_1710-1776
- ↑ Pg.147.Vol 1. THE BLAND PAPERS" BEING A SELECTION FROM MANUSCRIPTS OF COLONEL THEODORICK BLAND OF PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY,VIRGINIA.Edited by Campbell.Petersburg(1840)on Google Books
- ↑ NOTE: The Bland Papers by his nephew, Theodorick Bland , does not mention his second marriage to Elizabeth Blair Bolling circa 1759
- ↑ Richard Bland. Wikipedia.
- ↑ Richard Bland. Wikipedia.
- The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland JR. of Prince George County, Virginia. by Theodorick Bland [2]
- Richard Bland. Wikipedia. Accessed by Mivhael Boynton on October 27, 2015 at 9:20 PM. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bland
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 13 Feb 2018), "Record of Richard Bland", Ancestor # A011131.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
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~0.39%
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Jim Miller :
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~0.39%
Mary (Turner) Parker :
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~0.39%
Cherie (Peeler) Stabell :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member cpstabell
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Bland-13 was born in 1710.