10 Facts About Richard Corbin

Richard Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council.

Richard Corbin's father married three times, and his first and third wives were daughters of members of the Governor's Council.

The younger Gawin's widow Hannah Lee Richard Corbin refused to formally marry her paramour, lest she lose her right to manage half of her husband's lands during her lifetime, after which this man inherited them.

Richard Corbin had two sisters or half-sisters who married burgesses, but who did not bear children who survived.

Jennie Richard Corbin married John Bushrod of Westmoreland County and Alice Richard Corbin married Benjamin Needler, Clerk of the Governor's Council.

Richard Corbin administered an additional 48 adult slaves and 61 teenaged slaves, twelve horses and 102 cattle from the estate of Gawin Corbin, in Middlesex County alone.

Richard Corbin first won election to the House of Burgesses representing Middlesex County after his father's death.

Richard Corbin was nominated for a seat on the Governor's Council, on which he served until the dissolution of the body at the start of the American Revolutionary War.

Richard Corbin served as the county lieutenant of Essex County beginning in 1752.

Richard Corbin died at the Laneville plantation at which he was born, but was initially buried at the family's Buckingham plantation.