Corbin of King and Queen County

Henry Corbin, son of Thomas Corbin of Hallende, Warwickshire, England, ame to Virginia in 1652 in the ship Charity. He settled in Middlesex County on a plantation called Buckingham.

Gawin Corbin, the son of Henry, removed to King and Queen County and in 1704 he owned 2,000 acres of land. He was married first to Katherine Wormley or Rosegill and second, Jane Lane Wilson, the widow of Willis Wilson, and third, Martha, the daughter of Colonel William Bassett of Eltham, New Kent County. Gawin Corbin served as a magistrate and Burgess. His Last Will and Testament was dated 1 Nov 1739, proved 12 February 1744 in King and Queen County. He bequeathed to his son, Gawin Corbin, land in Westmoreland, Lancaster, King George and Prince William County, being all the land on the Northern Neck, and 600 thousand acres in Spotsylvania County. He bequeathed his son, John Corbin, the land at Portobacco in Essex County. Daughters, Fanny Bushrod, Joanna Tucker, Alice Needler, and Allerton Rootes were given personal items. To his son, Colonel Richard Corbin, he bequeathed land in King and Queen County.

Colonel Richard Corbin was married to Betty Taylor and the marriage contract provided for fifty negroes as well as the Laneville plantation. Colonel Corbin rose in prominence and it is said that he helped George Washington acquire his first commission as an officer after Washington wrote him a letter asking for assistance. It was Colonel Corbin who made a last effort to reconcile the Royal Government and the people of Virginia when he visited Lord Dunmore aboard the shipp Fowey. Dunmore stubbornly refused to negotiate, and thus his departure left Corbin the actual head of the Royal Government in Virginia. Corbin took measures to have his sons educated in England. His son, Gawin was sent to England where he was a student of Christ's College in Cambridge. Colonel Richard Corbin and his wife spent their lives at Laneville where they died, but were taken back to the family burial plot at Buckingham, in Middlesex County.