Henry Corbin (colonist)

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Henry Corbin
Hon Henry Corbin of Buckingham House, Middlesex, Virginia.png
Portrait of Hon Henry Corbin of Buckingham House, Middlesex, Virginia
Member of the House of Burgesses for Lancaster County
In office
1659–1660
Preceded byPeter Montague
Succeeded byRaleigh Travers
Personal details
Born1629
Hall End, Warwickshire, England
Died1676
Buckingham House, Middlesex County, Virginia
Resting placeBuckingham House, Middlesex County, Virginia
NationalityBritish
OccupationPlanter, Agent
Known forVirginia Planter

Henry Corbin (also Corbyn) (1629–1675/76) was an emigrant from England who became a tobacco planter in the Virginia colony and served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, in the House of Burgesses representing Lancaster County before the creation of Middlesex County on Virginia's Middle Neck, then on the Governor's Council.[1]

Early life[]

Corbin was born in 1629 in Warwickshire the son of Sir Thomas Corbin and his wife Winifred Grosvenor.

Colonial planter and politician[]

In 1654, at the age of 25, he immigrated across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in the Virginia Colony aboard the ship Charity. Corbin settled on the Middle Neck and operated tobacco plantations using enslaved labor. In 1668, during the lengthy creation of Middlesex County from the part of Lancaster County south of the Rappahannock River, Corbin paid taxes for eighteen tithables, the most on that side.[2]

The governor and council made Corbin a justice of the Lancaster County court in 1657.[3] Lancaster County voters in both 1659 and 1660 elected Corbin as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses, alongside the county's largest plantation owner, John Carter, Sr., who lived and operated plantations on the Rappahannock's northern shore (with 58 tithables in 1668).[4][5]

In 1663, Corbin was appointed to the Virginia Governor's Council.[6] He remained on the council until his death in 1676.[3]

Family[]

He married Alice Eltonhead, the widow of Rowland Burnham, before April 5, 1658. They had three sons (Henry, Thomas, and Gawin), and five daughters (Laetitia, Alice, Winifred, Ann, and Frances). Henry Corbin died on January 8, 1675. His widow married (3rd) Capt. Henry Creyke (or Creeke)[7] Letitia married Richard Lee II, a Colonel, planter, politician, and Member of the Upper House and of the King's Council of Virginia. Ann married William Tayloe, the nephew of William Tayloe (the immigrant) of King's Creek Plantation and High Sheriff of York Co., Virginia, the father of John Tayloe I of The Old House and progenitor of the Tayloe's of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Henry Corbyn (1628 or 1629–ca. 1676) – Encyclopedia Virginia".
  2. ^ Carolyn H. Jett, Lancaster County, Virginia: Where the River meets the Bay, (Lancaster County History Book Committee, 2003) pp. 383, 384
  3. ^ a b Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. 1. Lewis historical publishing Company. p. 128. OCLC 2576742.
  4. ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 35, 36
  5. ^ Jett p. 384
  6. ^ Bruce, Philip Alexander; Stanard, William Glover (July 1921). "The Corbin Family (continued)". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 29 (3): 374–382. JSTOR 4243833. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. ^ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol 1, p 535
  8. ^ "The Tayloes of Virginia and Allied Families," by W. Randolph Tayloe (Berryville, VA, 1963) p.1,79. FHL #929.273 T211t. Cites: (a) York Co., VA deeds.
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