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 Est 1745 - Yes, date unknown
 1742 - 1790 (48 years)
| Birth |
21 Mar 1742 |
Cawsons, Prince George City County, Virginia  |
| Died |
2 Jun 1790 |
New York City, New York |
| Buried |
Trinity Churchyard, New York/Reinternment Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C. |
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| Father |
Theodorick Bland, b. 2 Dec 1719, Prince George Co., Virginia |
| Mother |
Frances Elizabeth Bolling, b. 1724, Prince Georges Co., Virginia |
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| Family |
Susan Fitzhugh, b. Est 1745, Colonial Virginia |
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| Name |
Susan Fitzhugh |
| Born |
Est 1745 |
Colonial Virginia |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I5946 |
My Reynolds Line |
| Last Modified |
15 Feb 2015 |
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| Sources |
- [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ripetime&id=I694.
From the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. II, "Fathers of the Revolution," Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Ed., 1915, p. 5:
"Bland, Theodorick, son of Colonel Theodorick Bland, of "Cawson's," Prince George county, was born March 21, 1751. [TGE note: this date is certainly in error] At the age of eleven he was sent to England and studied at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, afterwards pursuing a medical course at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1764 returned to America. He was among the first in Virginia who opposed the practice of medicine without a license. When Lord Dunmore's seizure of the colony's arms and amunition occurred, Bland is said to have been one of those who succeeded in regaining some of this property. Bland continued to practice his profession until the outbreak of the war of the revolution, when he volunteered and was appointed captain of the first troop of cavalry raised in Virginia. As soon as a regiment had been completed he was made a lieutenant-colonel, and afterward colonel. He distinguished himself at the battle of Brandywine, and at Saratoga was placed in charge of the British prisoners sent to Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1779, Colonel Bland was in command of the troops stationed at Albermarle barracks, Virginia. In 1780 he was elected to Congress, and continued in that body three years. He then returned to Virginia, and was a member of the state legislature. In 1788 he opposed the adoption of the Federal constitution, being of the opinion that it was repugnant to the interests of his country. He was, however, chosen to represent the district in which he lived, in the (first) Congress under this same instrument. When the assumption of the state debt was under consideration in March 1790, Colonel Bland spoke in favor of such assumption, in this respect differing from the opinion of all his colleagues. He is accredited with considerable talent for poetical writing. He died in New York City, June 1, 1790, at the time of the session of Congress. He was buried in Trinity churchyard. He married (first) Susan Fitzhugh; (second) Mary Daingerfield."
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