• General Notes

  Title: Col.
  
  Occupation: Member, House of Burgesses Virginia
  
  Richard Bland is an ancestor General Robert E. Lee.
  
  Note:
  From "Extracts on the Bland Family from Bishop Meade," published 1858, pp. 444-445:
  
  "He [Richard Bland] was born at Berkeley, the neighboring estate, in 1665, and married first a Miss Swan, and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of William Randolph, of Turkey Island. His daughters, three in number, married Henry Lee, William Beverley, and Robert Monford. His sons were Richard and Theodoric, who moved to Prince George and lived at Jordans and Causons, near City Point. Richard was the one who took so active a part in the affairs of both Church and State before and during the war of the Revolution. He wrote a treatise on Baptism against the Quakers, of which sect some of his ancestors or relations in England had been. He died in 1776 and was buried at Jordans. He married a Miss Poythiers and had twelve children. The other son of Richard Bland, Sr. was Theodoric, who lived at Causons. He married a Miss Bolling, descendant of Pocahontas, and had one son Theodoric, and five daughters, Messrs. Bannister, Ruffin, Eaton, Haynes and Randolph of Roanoke, father of John Randolph, member of Congress. At Mr. Randolph's death she married St. George Tucker, who was afterward Judge of the Court of Appeals. Her son Theodoric was Lieutenant of the County, Clerk, Burgess and vestryman. He (Theodoric, Sr.) was active to the close of the war, as his letter to Col. Theodoric Bland, his son, shows. His son received a complete English education, being in England eleven years, and returning a thorough-bred physician. But, not liking that profession, and engaging warmly in the dispute with England, he entered the army and signalized himself. He attained to the rank of colonel, and stood high in the esteem of Washington. His letters to Lord Dinsmore, at the opening of the war, have not a little of the spirit and genius of Junius in them. In the year 1769, while living at Blandford, or Petersburg, and practicing medicine, we find his name on the list of vestrymen, thus following his father's footsteps."
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  Will: 1719
  Will of Richard Bland, 1719 - Prince George Co. VA
  
  (Deeds etc. 1713-28, page 394, Prince George Co.VA.)
  
  In The Name of God, Amen, February the fourth, one thousand seven
  Hundred & nineteen, I Richard Bland of the County of Prince George and
  Parrish of Westover Gentleman, being sick and weak in body but of
  perfect sence & memory do make and ordain this as my Last Will and
  Testament, First and principally I recommend my Soul unto Almighty God,
  hopeing for pardon & remission of my sinns, through the death and
  passion of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, my body I
  commit to the Earth to be interred at the discretion of my Executors,
  and the Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I
  dispose of in manner following.
  I Devise unto my son Theodorick, and to his heirs for ever, that tract
  of Land which I purchased of Mr.William Randolph, lying at Pidgeon
  Swamp as also all my Lands and Tennements at Jones Hole, and on
  Buckskin Creek at Nottoway River.
  All the Residue of my Lands and Tennements I devise unto my son Richard,
  and his heirs for ever.
  I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary five Hundred Pounds Sterling
  mony, one feather bed & furniture, one dozen of Silver Spoons, and my
  Negro Woman Scis, and Negro Girl Frank, to be held by her & her heirs
  for ever.
  I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Five Hundred Pounds
  Sterling mony, one feather bed & furniture, one dozen of Silver Spoons
  and these Negro Girls, to witt, Kate and Judith, to be held by her &
  her heirs for ever.
  I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ann Five Hundred Pounds Sterling
  mony, one feather bed & furniture, one dozen of Silver Spoons,and these
  Negro Girls, to Witt, Phillis and Little Scis, to be held by her & her
  heirs for ever.
  I give to be equally divided between my three Daughters all their
  Mothers apparell, and other ornaments, and to each of them a horse and
  womans saddle.
  All my Negro's not before mentioned, I give and Devise unto my Sonns
  Richard and Theodorick and their heirs for ever, to be Equally divided
  between them when my son Richard shall arrive to Lawfull age, and if
  either of my said sons dye before that time, then I give all my Negro's
  to the survivor and to his heirs for ever, and if after such division,
  my son Theodorick shall dye before he arrives to Lawfull age, then I
  give all those Negro's that shall be alloted for him, upon such
  division, unto my son Richard, and his heirs for ever.
  After all my Debts and Legacys are paid, and the charges of cloathing
  and maintaining my children (so long as they are under Guardians) are
  sattisfied out of my Estate, and the profitts thereof, then whatever
  shall be remaining, I give to be equally divided between my two Sonns,
  and if either of them dye before he comes of age, then the part of him
  that shall dye, I give to be equally divided between all my children.
  My will is that my Executors be not obliged by any order of Court to
  Inventory my Estate, but that fair accounts be kept of the profitts and
  Loss of the same.
  I give to each of my dec'd. Wife's Brothers, and to Each of their
  Wife's, and children, and to her own Sister, and her children, a
  mourning Ring.
  The Guardianship of my children I commit to my Executors, and do direct
  that they have not the Liberty of choosing any other Guardian.
  I do revoke all Wills by me heretofore made, and do make constitute and
  appoint my Brothers in Law William Randolph and Richard Randolph
  Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.
  
  Rich'd. Bland   Seald w'th. black wax
  
  Signed Seald published
  & declared in presence of
  Adam(hisAmarke)Sims
  John Fitzgerrald
  Tho's.(hismarke)Burge
  Mich'l.(hisMWmarke)Wallis
  
  
  At a Court held at Merchants Hope for the County of Prince George on
  the second Tuesday in April being the twelveth day of the said month,
  Anno Dom. 1720.
  The above written Last Will and Testament of Richard Bland Dece'd. was
  presented into Court by William Randolph and Richard Randolph his
  Executors, who made oath thereto, and it being proved by the oaths of
  John Fitzgerald, Thomas Burge and Michal Wallis witnesses thereto, is
  by order of the Court truly recorded. And on the motion of the s'd.
  William Randolph and Richard Randolph, and their giving security,
  Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate of the said will
  in due form.
  
  Test  Wm.Hamlin  ClCur
  
  Submitted by Russell L. Lawrence <ruslaw@@bellatlantic.net>
  

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