Hey Researchers, The website below is for the Womack family. The researcher of this page has gone into great details about the family and who lived near the Womacks. In several places though out this website he refers to Hudson Blankenship and his son Henry Blankenship. This is one site I think all Blankenship researchers should read, then you can treat it as you see fit. According to this website Hudson Blankenship opened up the trade routes in VA between several cities. It seems that our Hudson had some of Henry Hudson nature for traveling in his blood. I have not wrote to the owner of this site yet and ask for any proof of any of this. http://hometown.aol.com/gideon1060/MyFamily.html This is some of the things I have cut and pasted from that site 1820: (Census) William Womack, Campbell County, VA., lived next door to Henry Blankenship, (son of Hudson Blankenship who had established the trade route ca., 1756 from Richmond, to Lynchburg, to Charlotteville, to areas in and around a village that had sprung up, now Bristal, Tennessee.) Hudson was a "Tinner" (trader) and builder. Francis Womock of Chesterfield Co. & Susannah his wife, to William Walthall of same Co. L 4: = 65 curr. 25 acres in Chesterfield Co. adjoining Richard Kennon, Womack Puckett and Thimothe Puckett, being part of a tract of 100 acres formerly belonging to John Puckett, May 2, 1755, D.B. 2, page 244. Ordered that John Blankinship, Joseph Blankinship, and Francis Womock summoned to appear at the next court to answer concerning a contempt by them late offered in suffering a prisoner of whom they were intrusted as Guards to escape out of prison to which he had been before only committed. Sept.1753. O. B. 1, page 391. Francis Womock, same as above to pay costs and a fine of 20 shillings each and sd. John Blankinship be discharged from any further attendance. Oct. 1753. 1 ibid p. 406. Larkin Womack, William D. Taylor and Charles H. Taylor, were all "Tinners" (Traders) just as Hudson Blankenship who established the route to and from Bristol and his son Henry Blankenship who lived next door to William and Catherine Womack 1820 in Campbell County, Virginia. Larkin (per tax records, paid taxes in Buckingham County, VA., thru 1856.) Larkin and Mary Taylor lived in Bristal Co., Tennessee. Real estate value $ 2400. His neighbor on one side was Rev., James C. King and wife whose daughter had married the banker Joseph R. Anderson. on the other side of Larkin was a hotel. Per deeds, after June 1860, Larkin purchased lots 46,64,and 66. which included the Exchange Hotel and this property included all between 4th Street and 6th Street (now Olive Street). http://hometown.aol.com/gideon1060/MyFamily.html http://search.hometown.aol.com/find.adp?cid=10000&resultOrder=1&queryToFlush=& query=Franklin%20Co%2e%2c%20VA%20Genealogy