Richard Bland (burgess)

His maternal grandfather Richard Bennett was the first elected Governor of the Colony of Virginia, during the English Commonwealth period.

They had five children before she too predeceased Bland:[2] Bland's many notable descendants, in addition to his son and namesake, include Roger Atkinson Pryor[10] and Joseph Pembroke Thom, a Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

When his father died in 1671, Bland's elder brother, Theodorick inherited Westover Plantation and legally joined Richard in its ownership.

[11] The brothers eventually conveyed 1,200 acres of the Westover Plantation lands in Charles City County to William Byrd I in 1688 for £300 and 10,000 pounds of tobacco and cask.

[5] Richard Bland then established the Jordan's Point Plantation across the James River in Prince George County, where he died in 1720.