Corbin Braxton

[4] Braxton returned to King William County where he lived on what had been his grandfather's Chericoke plantation and began his medical career, which lasted until 1830.

He rebuilt the Chericoke manor house in 1828 and soon retired from medicine to concentrate on his two plantations, which he operated using enslaved labor and which included about 1400 acres.

[7] In the last census in his lifetime, in 1850, Braxton owned 66 slaves in King William county, including 15 boys and 15 girls 10 years old or younger.

[9] Following the conflict, King William County voters elected Braxton as one of their representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1816, but he only served one term.

Two decades later, after Archibald Harwood resigned from the state senate, Corbin won a special election to replace him, in a district comprising the counties in the Middle Neck of Virginia.