His full brother John Corbin (1715-1757) would inherit the Portobago plantation and lands in several counties, but held only local offices.
Jane Lane also bore three daughters, of whom the eldest, Ann, would survive her first husband, Isaac Allerton, and remarried Rev.
The younger Gawin's widow Hannah Lee 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.
In the Virginia tax census of 1787, he owned 37 enslaved adults and 82 teenaged slaves, as well as nine horses and 138 cattle in Middlesex County.
[6] As the Crown's receiver general from 1754-1776, he was responsible for financing Virginia's troops in the French and Indian War, and became a mentor of young George Washington.
Decades later, after Lord Dunmore seized the colony's gunpowder at Williamsburg, Patrick Henry traveled to Corbin's main plantation (Laneville) to demand payment.