Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827)
Richard Bland Lee, brother of Henry Lee III, Charles Lee, and Edmund Jennings Lee, was born on 20 January 1761 at Leesylvania, the family plantation near Dumfries in Prince William County, Virginia. He attended The College of William and Mary before serving as a state legislator (1784–88, 1796, 1799–1806) and U.S. representative (1789–95).
"Richard Bland Lee." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310009201/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=538e8740. Accessed 18 Oct. 2023.
"To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 15 April 1825," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0526. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 514–515.]
Richard Bland Lee at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Richard Bland Lee at Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.
Richard Bland Lee at FamilySearch.