Colonel Gawin Corbin

COL. GAWIN CORBIN, (19--3), of "Peckatone," Westmoreland Co., and "Lanesville," King and Queen Co., Va., b. 1669; d. 1744; he was educated in England, was a firm and liberal supporter of the Established Church; Naval Officer of the Rappahannock; a Burgess; and an influential member of the King's Council, and its President; he made will Nov. 1, 1739, which was probated Feb. 12, 1744; he left large estates in Virginia, "Peckatone," in Westmoreland, "Buckingham House,' in Middlesex, "Lanesville," in King and Queen, and many acres in other counties;

he m.

• (first) Catherine Wormley, dau. of Hon. Ralph and Catherine (Lunsford-Jennings) Wormley, of "Rosegill," Middlesex Co, Va;
• (second) Jane (Lane) Wilson, wid of Hon. Willis Wilson, and dau. and heiress of Hon. John Lane, of "Lanesville," King and Queen Co, Va.;
• (third) Martha Bassett, dau of Hon. William and Joanna (Burwell) Bassett, of "Eltham," New Kent Co., Va. From Colonial Families in the Southern States.

12 Feb 1744: The county and parish records of King and Queen have been destroyed, but a copy of his will is recorded in a suit in the Fredericksburg District Chancery Court. It was dated Nov. 1, 1739, and proved in King and Queen, Feb. 12, 1744. He describes himself as of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen countq. Bequests to son Richard, who married Betty, daughter of Col. John Tayloe; to son Gawin Corbin all lands lying in Westmoreland, Lancaster, King George and Prince William counties ; also 6000 acres in the county of Spotsylvania ; refers to his brother, the late Mr. Thomas Corbin, to son Gawin certain slaves given to his (Gawin's) mother by her father William Bassett, Esq. to son Richard, lands in King and Queen and Middlesex, and 6000 acres in Spotsylvania, also a tract in Caroline Co., and Morecox in the south end of Essex ; to son John land called Portobago ; daughter Alice Needier, my house and four lots in Williamsburg; daughter Allerton. Codicil, names sons and sons-in-law Richard Corbin, Benjamin Needier, Gawin Corbin, when he comes of age, Robert Tucker, and brother-in-law William Bassett Esq. A second codicil says "I give my four white men servants to my son Gawin, and Matthew Cue, coachman, I give to my son John". William G. Stanard, editor, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol, XXIX, No. 4, Oct 1921, p. 520

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