Hannah Ludwell Corbin

Hannah Ludwell Lee

• Born: February 6, 1728: Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia, British America
• Died c. October 7, 1782
• Parent(s): Thomas Lee (father) & Hannah Ludwell (mother)
• Spouse Gawain Corbin ​(m. 1747; died 1750)​
• Children: 3

Biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Lee_Corbin

Hannah Ludwell (Lee) Corbin (February 6, 1728 – c. October 7, 1782) was an American women's rights advocate and member of the Lee family in Virginia. A widow and an early convert from the Church of England to the Baptists, she is known for asking that women be given the right to vote.

A member of the politically influential Lee family, Hannah Ludwell Lee was born on February 6, 1728, on her parents' Stratford Hall plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia.[1] Her father was prominent civil servant Thomas Lee and her mother was colonial heiress Hannah Ludwell. The fourth of eleven children, her siblings included Philip Ludwell; Francis Lightfoot and Richard Henry, both of whom signed the United States Declaration of Independence; Thomas Ludwell; diplomat Arthur; alderman William;[1] and Alice.[2] In 1747, Hannah Lee married her cousin Gawain Corbin, who died three years later from injuries sustained in a horse-riding mishap;[3] they had one daughter, Martha.[4]

Following her husband's death, Corbin inherited vast swathes of property, including 500 acres (200 ha) in Lancaster County[3] and 2,250 acres (910 ha) in Caroline County, alongside a few slaves.[4] She subsequently cohabited with physician Richard Lingan Hall (died 1774),[1] although they never married and she gave their children the Corbin surname, so as to not violate her husband's will, which stipulated that her inheritance would be forfeited if she remarried;[4] Corbin and Hall had a son, Elisha,[5] and a daughter, also named Martha.[6] Formerly an attendee of the Church of England,[7] Corbin became a member of the Baptist church around 1764, to the disapproval of her siblings.[2] She died around October 7, 1782.[1]

Children:

1. Martha (Corbin) Tuberville
2. Elisha Hall and
3. Martha Hall

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Slaves

She is listed as having 28 slaves in 1782

spouses.

She had never legally married her second "husband", physician Richard Lingan Hall, who was also a Baptist, since that would have deprived her of her life-legacy from the first spouse, Gawin Corbin. The writer assumes, however, that at some point a Baptist elder blessed her union with Richard Hall. In the Baptist faith, it could hardly have been otherwise.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179179881/hannah-ludwell-corbin...
• http://www.geocities.ws/marianapolis99/verduinn.htm
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Lee_Corbin
• https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Corbin_Hannah_Lee
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lee-1397
• https://www.stratfordhall.org/the-lee-women-2/
• https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/01/hannah-lee-corbin.html
• Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America. By Janet Lindman. Page 232. < GoogleBooks >