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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Bland, Richard (1710-1776) Receipt for payment as commissioner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02471.03 Author/Creator: Bland, Richard (1710-1776) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1770/07/03 Pagination: 2 p. Order a Copy

[Continental Congress members]

BLAND, Richard, (1710-1776) Delegate from Virginia; member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1742-1775; member of the Virginia committee of correspondence in 1773; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775; again chosen, but declined to serve; member of the Virginia Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776. (excerpted from bioguide.congress.gov)

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