The father's will announced that young Gawin would receive the Peckatone plantation and lands in Westmoreland, Lancaster, King George, Prince William and Spotsylvania counties.
His father having died in 1744, this Gawin Corbin was one of the original investors in the first Ohio Company of Virginia, organized in 1748 by Thomas Lee, with his sons Philip Ludwell Lee and Thomas Ludwell Lee., as well as prominent planters John Tayloe, Lawrence and Augustine Washington, Robert Carter II and George Fairfax.
[2] Both Lyon Gardiner Tyler and the Corbin family biographer believe he succeeded his father in the House of Burgesses, although he did not receive land in either Middlesex nor King and Queen Counties.
[3] His elder half-brother Richard Corbin lived in and inherited lands in those counties and may have been grooming his younger half brother, and indeed succeeded to the Middlesex burgess position after the man who probably defeated this Gawin in the 1748 election, Philip Grymes, accepted a royal appointment disqualifying him from legislative duties.
[9] Reputedly, Richard Henry Lee was exasperated by Hannah's refusal to settle this man's estate, insisting that all that was necessary was that she sell "one middling slave".