259:(died 1868), inherited the Reeds plantation and probably began to raise this boy, since he married his first wife, a woman from Philadelphia in 1822, although she died in childbirth and the boy was raised by his maternal grandparents after their father's remarriage and took their surname, Dr. Francis Sims. Robert B. Corbin also repeated part of their father's career by representing Caroline County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and serving as colonel of the county militia. The second eldest brother, Francis Porteus Corbin (1801–1876) married a Philadelphia heiress and died in Paris, France, although their son, Richard Washington Corbin after education in England, returned to Virginia to serve on the staff of CSA General Fields. John Sawbridge Corbin (d. 1883) married Mary Blackwell and lived at "The Glimpse" in
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Alabama filed documents affecting the share of one of his heirs at law, Francis Corbin Randolph, who had been an elected Alabama probate judge who disappeared,
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Laneville had been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates before this boy's birth and raised an artillery company and served with distinction in the War of 1812, as would Major Gawin Lane Corbin of King's Creek plantation in York County.
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General Thomas Goldsborough Corbin (1917–1992) is unclear.
530:"Anna Munford Beverley b. 6 Jan 1778 Blandfield, St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, Virginia d. 7 Oct 1830 'Reeds' Caroline County, Virginia: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties"
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possibly to become a soldier of fortune in a South
American conflict between Columbia and Venezuela, whereupon the accounts of monies for liquor licenses were audited and $ 25,000 seemingly embezzled.
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