Hi all researchers, I have been trying to find more information on my blood line. Which is Ralph1 that married Matha, Ralph2, William3, Abraham4, John Jago5, John Henry6, Jessie Mose7, Jessie Malcolm8, ME9. In my search for more information, and with the help of Gayle and Mike, I found the following information. I want to share it with all of you in hopes that it will help find our Ralph and Martha. THIS IS PROVEN I HAVE PROOF FOR THIS This information came from ("the green books of pensions" as Mike called them) Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications Volume Seven pages 65, 66 and 67. Absracted and Compiled by John Frederick Dorman. BLANKENSHIP, Abraham or Abram (Susan). W.10425. 7 Jan. 1830. Bedford Co., Va. Abraham (X) Blankingship of said county, aged about 72, declares he served three months under Capt. Joseph Royal and at Yorktown enlisted for three months under Capt. Lewis and marched to Williamsburg, and then enlisted for three months under Capt. James Scott and marched to old Jamestown and was there drafted as a regular soldier Inder Col. Dick, Maj. Boyce and Capt. Scott, and marched to Norfolk, Hampton and other places. He is a cooper and is now blind and unable to work. He has no property except a few coopers' tools. The overseers of the poor of Bedford County have levyed for his and his wife's relief $20. His wife is about 74 and very infirm. His single daughter is about 35 and her two children about 14 and 11. He has lived in Bedford County 46 years. 7 Jan. 1830. Bedford Co., Va. Thomas Phelps of said county declares he heard John Overstreet say Abraham Blankinship was a good Revolutionary soldier. 11 Dec. 1829. Lynchburg, Va. Thomas Wyatt declares he was born in Chesterfield Co., Va. in the neighborhood of Abraham Blankinship, Sr., now resident of Bedford County. He has frequently heard his father and others talking with Blankinship about the Continental service and the time Blankinship served. Moses Ferguson and GeorgeVaden lived in the same neighborhood. 23 Jan. 1833. Beford Co. Va. Abram (X) Blankenship of said county aged 73, declares he was drafted in the militia of Chesterfield County where he was born and then resided to serve three months in 1777. He marched about the first of June and was discharged in September and served under Capt. Cheetum [Cheatham], Col. Goode and Maj. Bass. They met at Chesterfield Court House and marched to Williamsburg Little York and Hampton and back to Little York and Wiilliamsburg where he was discharged. The next tour he was drafted. It was a law that every sixteen men were to furnish a soldier and it fell his lot to go for eighteen months. He marched from Chesterfield County under Capt. Scott, Maj. Boice and Col. Dicks, first to Petersburg and then to Portsmouth where they stayed fourteen or fifteen months. They then marched to Mackey's Mills and were discharged 25 Aug. 1779. He was a substitute for John Wilson of the same county in 1780. About the first of September he marched under Capt. Patterson Col. Robertson and Maj. Goode to Petersburg and there joined Col.Meade's regiment from Amelia County. They marched to Smithfield, then to Williamsburg for several weeks, and back to Smithfield where they lay until the three months expired. In 1781 he was called out by his number to meet the British at Petersburg and was in a skirmish in which they killed five or six British. THey took up the bridge to prevent their crossing, but the British did by some means cross and followed them to Chesterfield Court House and took thirty-seven prisoners, They retreated to Shirley Hundred and the British pursued and began to land. A sharp firing ensued and they took two boast loads of British prisoners and killed five or six. The prisoners were sent immediately to Norfolk. THey marched to Mobbin (Malvern) Hills and then to Culpeper County and were discharged in June 1781. He served three months, under Capt. Moody, Col. Robertson and Maj. Harris. His father told him he was born in 1759 in Chesterfield County. He lived there until 1784 when he moved to Bedford Co., Va., where he has since lived. He cannot read or write. 22 Aug. 1845 Bedford Co., Va. Susan (X) Blankenship, late of said county, now living temporarily in Franklin Co., Va., aged 87 declares she is widow of Abram Blankenship. She was married in Chesterfield County, where she resuded, after the publishing of the banns by Parson Lee, in 1781. About five years after their marriage they moved to Bedford County. Her husband died 8 March 1845. The Clerk of Chesterfield County reports in 1845 he can find no certificate of marriage of Abraham Blankenship and Susan Wiatt. 25 Oct. 1845 Bedford Co., Va. Elijah (X) Cundiff of said county, aged 86 declared he has lived at the same place he now lives for the last 82 years. Fifty six years years ago (the circumstance is fixed by th birth of his son Jeremiah who is now 56) he bought corn of Blankinship that he had made as overseer for Daniel Brown. 25 Oct. 1845 Bedford Co., Va. Matthew Hall Sr., of said county, aged 78, declares he was born and raised in said county near where he now resided. He had been neighbors to Abram Blankinship since he came into the county. He knows he was here in 1789 for that year Hall went on a trip to the western country. In 1794 when Hall's father died they resided in the neighborhood. 27 Oct. 1845 Bedford Co., Va. John Ayers, Sr., of said county, aged 91 declares he was born in said bounty and had resided at his present resdence ever since. Abraham and Susan Blankinship were present when he married Peter Kinnett and Milly Blankinship, the sister of Abraham, on 31 Oct. 1789. (Ayers is a Methodist Minister.) Abram Blankenship of Bedford Co., Va., private in the regiment of Col. Goode in the Virginia line for two years, was placed on the Virginia pension roll at $80 per annum under the Act of 1832. Certificate 12155 was issued 3 April 1833. Susan Blankenship, widow of Abram Blankenship, private in the Virginia line, ws placed on the Virginia pension roll at $80 per annum from 8 March 1845 under the Act of 1844. Certificate 130 was issued 13 Dec. 1845.