Theodorick Bland (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]

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 had many notable descendants) and John Bland (who was the great-grandfather of Chancellor Theodorick 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

1. Hunter, Joseph (1895). "Bland". In Clay, John W. Familiae Minorum Gentium. II. London: The Harleian Society. pp. 421–427.
2. John Alexander. Chapman & Alexander Families. Virginia Book Company. p. 101.
3. "Bounds of the Capitol and Prison". Colonial Williamsburg's Digital History Center Archive. April 11, 1943.
4. Great Britain Public Record Office; John William Fortescue (1908). Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts.
5. Helen Bullock (April 12, 1938). "Sizes of Colonial Lots". Colonial Williamsburg's Digital History Center Archive.
6. 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.
7. Tyler, Lyon G. (January 1896). "Title of Westover". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 4 (3): 151–155. Retrieved December 11, 2010.