Theodorick Bland of Cawsons
Theodorick Bland (December 2, 1708 – 1784),[1][2] also known as Theodorick Bland, Sr. or Theodorick Bland of Cawsons, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, a clerk of the court of Prince George County, Virginia, and the father of Congressman Theodorick Bland.[3][4]
Biography
Bland was the son of Richard Bland and Elizabeth Randolph, the daughter of William Randolph I.[5] He has been described as "a plain practical man, with but slender advantages of education, of an ample fortune and respectable character",[4] and "a respected member of Virginia's glittering planter aristocracy".[1] Reported to be "magnificent", "spacious", and "a hospitable seat of taste and elegance", Bland's plantation, Cawsons, was located on a promontory where the Appomattox River turned north to meet the James River.[1]
Around 1738, Bland married Frances Bolling, the daughter of Drury Bolling. They had six children:[6][nb 1]
- Elizabeth "Patsy" Bland (born January 4, 1739)[6] married John Banister and had three sons.[7]
- Theodorick Bland (March 21, 1741/42)[6]
- Mary Bland (born August 22, 1745)[6]
- Ann Bland (born September 5, 1747)[6]
- Jane Bland (born September 30, 1749)[6]
- Frances Bland (born September 24, 1752)[6] first married John Randolph, the son of Richard Randolph, and had four children (including John Randolph of Roanoke); then later married St. George Tucker and had five children (including Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker).[6]
Bland later married Elizabeth Randolph the daughter of Edward Randolph, the granddaughter of William Randolph I, and the widow of William Yates.[2][nb 1]
On November 15, 1758, Francis Fauquier, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony, appointed Bland colonel of the militia for Prince George County.[4] Before the American Revolution, the Bland and Randolph families of Virginia frequently cooperated with each other to manage their plantations.[1] After the Gunpowder Incident at the beginning of the war, Bland, along with his son, Theodorick Bland Jr, and his son-in-law, John Randolph, offered 40 slaves for sale to raise funds to replace the gunpowder seized by Lord Dunmore from the magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia.[1][8] Around January 1781, St. George Tucker assisted Bland, his father-in-law, in escaping the advancing British Army commanded by Benedict Arnold.[1] A few months later, the British Major-General William Phillips ordered that his troops in Prince George County not harm Bland's property.[9]
In 1775, Bland owned a sorrel mare that had been imported from England by William Byrd III.[10] Quaker-Lass was described in one stud book as "the finest looking mare in Virginia, of her day".[10]
Ancestry
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Bland's paternal uncle was the surveyor Theodorick Bland.[11]
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hamilton, Phillip (2003). The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia 1752-1830. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780813921648.
- 1 2 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). "Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons". Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. II. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 188, 366.
- 1 2 Campbell, Charles (1860). "XCI". History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia. J.B. Lippincott and Co. p. 672.
- 1 2 3 Bland, Theodorick (1840). "Memoir of Theodorick Bland, Jr.". In Campbell, Charles. The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. I. Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin. pp. xiii–xv.
- ↑ Bland, Theodorick (1840). "Appendix". In Campbell, Charles. The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. I. Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin. pp. 145–149.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Frances Bland Randolph Chapter, NSDAR (August 8, 2010). "The Family of Frances Bland Randolph Tucker". Petersburg, Virginia: Frances Bland Randolph Chapter, NSDAR. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ↑ "Colonel John Banister". Colonel John Banister Chapter, NSDAR. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ↑ Garland, Hugh A. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke. 1. New York: D. Appleton & Company. p. 5.
- ↑ Stanard, William G., ed. (June 1902). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. IX. Richmond, Virginia: The Virginia Historical Society. p. 163.
- 1 2 Edgar, Patrick Nisbett (1833). "Quaker-Lass". The American Race-Turf Register, Sportsman's Herald, and General Stud Book. I. New York: Press of Henry Mason. p. 415.
- ↑ Hunter, Joseph (1895). "Bland". In Clay, John W. Familiae Minorum Gentium. II. London: The Harleian Society. pp. 421–427.