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Virginia colonial surveyor
Theodorick Bland (February 1663 – November 1700)
[1] made a
survey in 1693 of the
Howson Patent ,
which is an area corresponding to present day
Alexandria, Virginia .
[2] He also made a survey for
Williamsburg, Virginia in 1699.
[3]
[4]
[5]
Coat of Arms of Theodorick Bland
Bland was the oldest son of
Theodorick Bland of Westover and Anna Bennett, the daughter of Governor
Richard Bennett .
[1]
[6] His brothers were
Richard Bland (who was the great-grandfather of Chancellor
Theodorick Bland ) and John Bland .
[1]
[6] Bland married Margaret Man and had two sons:
[1]
John Bland (born December 8, 1698); he married Ann West and had at least three children, John, Theodorick, and Mary.
[1]
Theodorick Bland, who died shortly after his father.
[1]
When his father died in 1671, Bland inherited
Westover Plantation and joined with his brother, Richard, in its ownership.
[7] The brothers eventually
conveyed 1,200 acres of the property to
William Byrd I in 1688 for 300L and 10,000 pounds of tobacco and cask.
[7] Byrd's grandson built a Georgian mansion there in the 1750s.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Theodorick Bland (surveyor) 16. Roger (or Robert) Bland 8. Adam Bland 4. John Bland 9. Jane/Joan Atkyns 2.
Theodorick Bland of Westover 10. de Dublere 5. Susan Declere/Duclere/Dublere 11. Marie Emperour 1. Richard Bland 24. Robert Bennett 12. Thomas Bennett 25. Elizabeth Edney/Ednye 6.
Richard Bennett 13. Anstie Tomson 3. Anna Bennett 7. Mary Anne Longworth (widow of Utie)
References
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Hunter, Joseph (1895).
"Bland" . In Clay, John W. (ed.).
Familiae Minorum Gentium . Vol. II. London: The Harleian Society. pp. 421–427.
^ John Alexander.
Chapman & Alexander Families . Virginia Book Company. p. 101.
^
"Bounds of the Capitol and Prison" . Colonial Williamsburg's Digital History Center Archive. April 11, 1943.
^ Great Britain Public Record Office; John William Fortescue (1908). Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series . Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts.
^ Helen Bullock (April 12, 1938).
"Sizes of Colonial Lots" . Colonial Williamsburg's Digital History Center Archive.
^
a
b Bland, Theodorick (1840).
"Appendix" . In Campbell, Charles (ed.).
The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia . Vol. I. Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin. pp. 145–149.
^
a
b Tyler, Lyon G. (January 1896).
"Title of Westover" . William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine . 4 (3): 151–155.
doi :
10.2307/1914946 .
JSTOR
1914946 . Retrieved December 11, 2010 .