THE

BLAND PAPERS:

BEING A

SELECTION FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS

OF

COLONEL THEODORICK BLAND, JR.

OF PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

AN INTRODUCTION,

AND

A MEMOIR OF COLONEL BLAND.

Clarorum virorum facta moresque posteris tradere.--TACITUS.

EDITED BY

CHARLES CAMPBELL.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PETERSBURG:

PRINTED BY EDMUND & JULIAN C. RUFFIN.

1840.

ENTERED, according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by JOHN E. MEADE and CHARLES

CAMPBELL, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia.