John Buckley Blankenship (abt. 1697 - abt. 1754)

Born about 1697 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Virginia

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Died about 9 Apr 1754 at about age 57 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Virginia

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Biography

John's father was Ralph Blankenship from Chesterfield County, Virginia. John Blankenship was born about 1695. He married Elizabeth Hudson, and they lived in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where he became a large land owner and farmer. Two different Land purchases: Purchase one: John Blankenship, 227 acres in Henrico County, adjoining Thomas Moore and Gilbert Elam. 25 Shillings. 28 August 1746. Book 24, page. 377. Purchase two: 372 acres in Henrico County, adjoining Gilbert Elam, Clary, Belcher, and Nunnery, on the Run of the Deep Creek. 40 Shillings. 1 December 1748. Book 27, page 55. According to records, John and Elizabeth were the parents of about ten children. John died in about 1754. The ten children were: William, Joseph, Isham, Hudson, Henry, Norvell, Matthew, Amy, Elizabeth, and Elisha. Our line was Ralph, John, Hudson, Jesse, John, Cornelius... and so on. JOHN BLANKENSHIP (RALPH1) was born 1695 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and
died 9 April 1754 in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He married ELIZABETH HUDSON
Abt. 1728, daughter of WILLIAM HUDSON. and ELIZABETH BOND. She was
born 16 July 1704 in Woodhouse, Leicester, England, and died 1789 in
Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Children of JOHN BLANKENSHIP and ELIZABETH HUDSON are:
i. AMY BLANKENSHIP, b. Abt. 1731
ii. ELIZABETH BLANKENSHIP
iii. HENRY BLANKENSHIP, b. Abt. 1744, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. West Virginia; m. EDITH ?.
iv. MATTHEW BLANKENSHIP, b. Henrico County, Virginia.
v. WILLIAM BLANKENSHIP, d. 1802, Chesterfield County, Virginia.
vi. HUDSON BLANKENSHIP, b. Abt. 1725, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. 1814, Campbell County, Virginia.
vii. JOSEPH CHESTERFIELD BLANKENSHIP, b. Abt. 1735
viii. ISHAM BLANKENSHIP, SR., b. Abt. 1738, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1805, Cane Creek, Rutherford County, North Carolina
ix. NOWELL BLANKENSHIP, b. Abt. 1746, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. 1794, Amherst County, Virginia

Names of children and wife, approximate age some children by indirect inference, and wife of John Blankenship determined by Benjamin B Weisiger ^[1]

WILL OF JOHN BLANKINSHIP

To son William 128 acres, the plantation he now lives on, next to Gilbert Elam and Thomas Moore. To son Joseph, the remainder of that survey above, 110 acres. To my three sons ISHAM, HUDSON and HENRY, 372 acres on Deep Creek, equally divided. To my two youngest sons Norvell and Matthew, land I love on, 200 acres, equally divided. Matthew to have the plantation. To daughter Amy Turner, 5 shillings. To daughter Elizabeth Morrisett, 5 shillings. To wife Elizabeth, 1/2 of personal estate, and rest to be divided between children Joseph, Hudson, Henry, Norvell and Matthew. Wife and son William to be Executors, Dated 9 April 1751, Witnesses: Ephraim Blankinship, Ann Blankinship, John Ward"

Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library (circa 1985-97) cites: "To his son William he left the plantation containing 128 acres where William lived. The rest of the survey containing 100 acres he gave to his son Joseph. His 372 acres on Deep Creek were to be equally divided among his sons Isham, Hudson, and Henry. The plantation whereon he lived containing 200 acres he gave to his sons Noel (Norvell) and Matthew. He gave five shillings each to his daughters Amy Turner and Elizabeth Morrisett. One half of his personal estate was to go to his wife Elizabeth and the other half to his sons Joseph, Hudson, Henry, Noel, and Matthew Blankenship. Elizabeth and William Blankenship presented the will, and Ephraim Blankenship and John Ward proved the will on 6 December 1754 in Chesterfield County." ^[2]

Will of John Blankinship dated 9 April 1751 wherein John leaves legacies to his sons William, Joseph, Isham, Hudson, two youngest sons Norvell and Matthew, daughters Amy Turner and Elizabeth Morrisett and wife Elizabeth. ^[3]

AAH: ^[4] Will of John Blankenship presented by Eliz. Blankenship and Wm. Blankenship, Executors and proved by Ephraim Blankenship and John Ward, witnesses; Henry Walthall and Joseph Blankenship, security.

AAH: ^[5]; 5 September 1755 Noel [Norvell] Blankenship and Hudson Blankenship, orphan of John Blankenship, choose Eliz., their mother, their guardian and she is also appointed guardian to Matthew Blankenship, another orphan. Henry Blankenship, another orphan, chooses Isham Blankenship as his guardian.^[6] "While John Blankenship directed that his estate was not to be appraised, the inventory of his estate indicated that his personalty consisted of four feather beds and furniture, two chests, two trunks, two tables and twelve chairs, a set of trouper arms, one gun, nine dishes, two basons, thirteen plates, four trays, one iron wedge, three old bells, three pairs of old cards, a parcel of shoemaker tools, three old bear hooks, three old sifters, a parcel of old knives and forks, one side saddle, two mare saddles, three bridles, one pick, one bridle and horse harness, eighteen head of cattle, fourteen old cows, four calves, six head of sheep, one horse, one mare, thirty head of hogs, and two old bags." ^[7]

Noel (Note: should be Norvell) Blankinship and Hudson Blankinship, orphans of John Blankinship, choose Elizabeth, their mother, their guardian, and she is also appointed guardian to Matthew Blankinship, another orphan. Henry Blankinship, another orphan, chooses ISHAM BLANKINSHIP as his guardian.^[8]

More About JOHN BLANKENSHIP:
Fact 1: 29 March 1722, John Blankenship & John Worley witness the will of Richard Nunaley-Henrico County ^[9]

Fact 2: 21 May 1726, Receives a plantation from stepfather Edward Stanley ^[10].

Fact 3: 2 November 1734, Wit will of Abel Turner for land to daughter Lucy Parker-adj Col.Bird, B Horner ^[11]

Notes for JOHN BLANKENSHIP:
According to Donald Warden, John Blankenship's middle name is "Buck": [1]
Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept., Dallas Public Library (circa 1985-97) cites "According to the 1736 Tax list Henrico County, John Blankenship had one levy and owned 100 acres - ^[12] On 2 August 1746 Joseph jackson of Dale Parish, Henrico County, sold John Blankenship for L5 part of a tract where he lived next to Walthall's line, the county bridge road, Jeremiah Walthall, and John Jackson containing 100 acres. ^[13] Presumably this 100 acres adjoined the original plantation. On 28 August 1746 John Blankenship received a patent for 227 acres adjoining the land of Gilbert Elam and Thomas Moore in Henrico Couny (Virginia Land Patent Book XXIV, 377). He had another patent for 372 acres adjoining Gilbert Elam, Clary, Belcher, Gates and Nunnery on the south side of Deep Creek in Henrico County on 1 December 1748 ^[14]. He then owned 799 acres."

AAH: DEATH: ^[15]; Will of John Blankenship; dated 9 April 1751; Witnesses: Ephraim Blankenship, Ann Blankenship, John Ward--AAH, 1997. Burial site is unknown.

AAH: ^[16] 6 December 1754 will of John Blankenship presented by Eliz. Blankenship and Wm. Blankenship, Executor and proved by Ephraim Blankenship and John Ward, Witnesses.; Henry Walthall and Joseph Blankenship, security.

AAH: ^[17] 5 September 1755. Noel [Norvell] Blankenship and Hudson Blankenship, orphan of John Blankenship, choose Eliz., their mother, their guardian and she is also appointed guardian to Matthew Blankenship, another orphan. Henry Blankenship, another orphan, chooses Isham Blankenship as his guardian. ^[18]

(Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library: "While John Blankenship directed that his estate was not to be appraised, the inventory of his estate indicated that his personal belongings consisted of four feather beds and furniture, two chests, two trunks, two tables and twelve chairs, a set of trouper arms, one gun, nine dishes, two basons, thirteen plates, four trays, one iron wedge, three old bells, three pairs of old cards, a parcel of shoemaker tools, three old bear hooks, three old sifters, a parcel of old knives and forks, one side saddle, two mare saddles, three bridles, one pick, one bridle and horse harness, eighteen head of cattle, fourteen old cows, four calves, six head of sheep, one horse, one mare, thirty head of hogs, and two old bags." ^[19]

Notes for ELIZABETH HUDSON: (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library, : "On 29 April 1772 one Elizabeth Blankenship of Chesterfield county, aged 85, deposed that Chance, an Indian, was the grandmother of Peter and other Indians which had belonged to Henry Clay, an Indian trader. Mary Clay, the widow of Henry, also aged 85, testified in the same dispute. In his lifetime Henry Clay had brought into the colony three Indians two of whom, a boy and a girl named Chance, he kept. Chance was the ancestress of Ned, Peter, Sam, and Rachel. This Elizabeth Blankenship was, therefore, born circa 1687. Chronologically, she would qualify to be the widow of John Blankenship.

John and Elizabeth Blankenship were neighbors of the Clays in Henrico County; Her late husband and Henry Clay were both stepsons of Edward Stanley. ^[20] The identification seems, therefore, to be correct. No later reference to her has been discovered."

Research Notes

The Bio and Source are about John (the brother of James and Ralph)

This profile was originally created as John Blankenship, then merged with a duplicate John.
A daughter Nancy was added (but probably should have been the daughter of his brother James)
Wife added (who was eventually merged into a number of other duplicates)
Then John was inexplicably renamed to James -- his brother (yet the biography still says John)
A year later, someone made a note about "imported the wrong person" and renamed James to Ralph (James and John's other brother)

I've renamed it now back to John and proposed this merge...
This is most likely a duplicate of John

Sources

1. ↑ Chesterfield County, Virginia wills, 1749-1774" by Benjamin B Weisiger Publisher: Benjamin B Weisiger Richmond, Virginia, 1979, Republished Iberian Pub., Athens, Georgia, 2000. page 17.
2. ↑ "Chesterfield County, Virginia wills, 1749-1774" by Benjamin B Weisiger Publisher: Benjamin B Weisiger Richmond, Virginia, 1979, Republished Iberian Pub., Athens, Georgia, 2000., pages 17 & 110)
3. ↑ Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book page 161.
4. ↑ Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book 2, page 24; 6 December 1754
5. ↑ Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book 2, page 122
6. ↑ (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library cites: Chesterfield County, Virginia wills, 1749-1774 by Benjamin B Weisiger Publisher: Benjamin B Weisiger Richmond, Virginia 1979, Republished Iberian Pub., Athens, Georgia 2000, page 113.
7. ↑ Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book I, pages 163-164.
8. ↑ "Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book page122 - 6 September 1755
9. ↑ (Source: Lloyd (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept., Dallas Public Library cites Weisiger, Col. Wills of Henrico County Part I-1654-1737, pages 116-17
10. ↑ (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library cites Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia Part One 1654-1737 Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III Published by Janaway Publishing Inc. Santa Maria, California U.S.A., 1977, Revised 1985 , page 109
11. ↑ (Source: Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia Part One 1654-173 Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III Published by Janaway Publishing Inc. Santa Maria, California U.S.A., 1977, Revised 1985, page 141; (Richmond: n. pub., 1976), [Will of Abel-p461-kkt])
12. ↑ (Beverly Fleet VIRGINIA COLONIAL ABSTRACTS VOL 21 HENRICO COUNTY--Southside 1736--Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985, page 8).
13. ↑ (Weisiger, HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS 1737-1750 Richmond: n. pub., 1985) page 29).
14. ↑ (Virginia Land patent Book XXVII, page 55)
15. ↑ (Source: Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book 1, page 161
16. ↑ (Source: Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book 2, page 24;
17. ↑ (Source: Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book 2, page 122;
18. ↑ (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept., Dallas Public Library: Chesterfield County, Virginia Wills, 1749-177 by Benjamin B Weisiger Publisher: Benjamin B Weisiger Richmond, Virginia, 1979, Republished Iberian Pub., Athens, Georgia 2000. page 113
19. ↑ Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Will Book I, 163-164.
20. ↑ [Peggy Carswell Peacock,Choctaws in Virginia 1712: An Adventure Beyond Carolina taken from Virginia General Court Records, THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST, XXIX (985) 7.]

• "Chesterfield County, Virginia wills, 1749-1774" by Benjamin B Weisiger Publisher: Iberian Pub., Athens, GA, 2000.

• Chesterfield County Will Books, 1749-1795. Reels 26-27, Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Choctaws in Virginia 1712 - An Adventure 'Beyond Carolina by Peggy Carswell Peacock ,taken from Virginia General Court Records, THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST, XXIX (985) 7.

• Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library (circa 1985-97)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #36889293

See also:

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cindyblankenship/DescendantsofRalphBlankenship.doc

• Roots Web discussion on the above source [2] Last read 23 October 2014

• Rootsweb: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BLANKENSHIP/1998-06/0896931323 1. JOHN2 BLANKENSHIPI (RALPH1) was born Abt. 1695 in Henrico County, Virginia (Source: Lloyd Bockstruck, Supervisor, Genealogy Dept,, Dallas Public Library cites Colonial Wills of Henrico Co., Virginia Part One 1654-173 Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, pages 116-117; (Richmond: n. pub.,

1976)), and died Aft. 09 April 1751 in Chesterfield Co, Virginia (Source: Chesterfield Co. WB 1, page 16, will is written; Chesterfield Co. OB 2, page 24; 6 December 1754, will is presented and proved.). He married ELIZABETH HUDSON, daughter of ROBERT HUDSON and MARY R HUDSONS WIFE.

Acknowledgements

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