Gawin Corbin (1669-1745) was a Virginia planter, militia officer, customs collector and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing at various times Middlesex and King and Queen County.
This boy's fourth uncle was a London merchant with the same name Gawin, and who died at Yelverton in Norfolk County, England in 1709.
Letitia married Richard Lee II, whose Westmoreland County estate bordered the Peckatone plantation.
Alice married Philip Lightfoot of Charles City County, and their son of the same name would serve on the Virginia Governor's Council.
His father's wealth gave rise to a local saying "rich as Corbin", but he died when Gawin was seven and his brother Thomas was eight years old.
Also, they had an uncle of the same name as this boy, who was a London merchant and lived at a home called "Hall End" in Polesworth in Warwickshire.
[4] His father acquired several valuable properties between the Mattaponi and Rappahannock Rivers that became plantations known as Peckatone, Nesting, Machotick, Jones Farm, Gales, Corbin Hall and Buckingham, although the names of the counties in which they were located changed as populations increased.
King and Queen county voters elected Corbin to represent him in 1715, and twenty years later, in 1736 (unless his youngest son, who shared his name was born considerably earlier than 1725).
Gawin continued the family's planter and political traditions and married Hannah Lee who caused scandals after his accidental death in 1760.
This man's youngest son, Gawin (1725-1750), whose guardians were named in that will, received the Peckatone plantation and lands in Westmoreland, Lancaster, King George, Prince William and Spotsylvania counties, and succeeded his father in the House of Burgesses.