Martha Daingerfield Bland
(1742-1804)
BIRTH
1742
PLACE
NAME
Martha Daingerfield
DEATH
1804
PLACE
France
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Theodorick Bland
(1741-1790)
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AWARDS
Martha Daingerfield Bland married physician and Patriot cavalry officer Theodorick Bland in 1768. Her wartime letters place her in New Jersey in 1777 and describe his regiment’s movements and news of relatives. In 1782 she wrote from Cawsons about scarce transport, visits, and expected French officers. With no surviving children, Theodorick left her most of his estate when he died in 1790. She later remarried; her exact birth and death dates remain unverified.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Martha Daingerfield Bland’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Martha Daingerfield Bland is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Martha Daingerfield Bland died in 1804, in France. Martha Daingerfield Bland married physician and Patriot cavalry officer Theodorick Bland in 1768. Her wartime letters place her in New Jersey in 1777 and describe his regiment’s movements and news of relatives. In 1782 she wrote from Cawsons about scarce transport, visits, and expected French officers. With no surviving children, Theodorick left her most of his estate when he died in 1790. She later remarried; her exact birth and death dates remain unverified. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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