https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/blankenship/3809/

"Colonel Blankenship says in his book “Blankenship Family History” that he became aware of an oral history of Ralph Blankinship’s daughter Anne in which it was told that she became pregnant out of wedlock and was subsequently banished or that she went away from her parent home in shame. A man named Gordon was said to have been the father of Anne’s child. The love child of Anne was named James and he was born 27 October 1720 in the hamlet of Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Nothing more is known of the man named Gordon. It is presumed that following Anne’s banishment from her parent’s home she probably departed Henrico County, Virginia and traveled to Massachusetts in the early summer of 1720 during her second trimester of pregnancy." From Don Blankenship

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• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 15 2017, 4:23:52 UTC

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• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 12 2017, 0:04:34 UTC