Ralph Blankinship, Sr. was born 1662 in probably Cambria, England, and died 1714 in Roxdale, Henrico Co., VA. He married MARTHA (last name unknown) about 1690 in Henrico Co., Virginia. Charles and Hannah were neighbors of Ralph Blankenship who lived just north of Conjurer's Neck and Swift Creek, Virginia. This same Hannah Wilson later married another neighbor Edward Stanley following her first husband's death. After Hannah's death Edward Stanley married Martha Blankenship in 1716 following the death of her first husband Ralph Blankenship who died in 1714. Richard Kennon petitioned for 8,000 acres for importing 90 white persons and seventy negroes in 1686 and 1687, Ralph Blenkship, was named as one of those imported. (Gayle King Blankenship's book Blankenship Ancestors)The first reference to Ralph Blankship appears April 1, 1690, Henrico Order Book 1678-1693, page 326. The entry reads: Upon the peticon of Rich'd Kennon these may certify that there is due unto him eight thousand acres of land for ye inportacon of ninety servts. into this colony whose names are under written & for seventy persons more being negroes, the same being legally prov'd by his oath in open court. The name Ralph Blankship appears as the 68th name on a list of 90 persons. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jimmermi&id=I003476