Gawin Corbin

Gawin Corbin (1725-1760) was a Virginia planter and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing Middlesex County, Virginia in the term in which his father of the same name died. Early and family life Born to the First Families of Virginia, his mother Martha Bassett being the daughter of one of the members of the Virginia Governor's Council and his father serving in the House of Burgesses for many terms in various counties in which he owned significant acreage. His mother was his father's third wife, and while the elder Gawin Corbin had no children before his first wife died, his second wife, the former Jane Lane, produced two sons and several daughters. Since this boy was clearly under legal age when his father drafted his will (although the elder Gawin Corbin would live until 1744), that will named his tutor as Mr. Christianall, and his guardians as his eldest brother Richard, as well as relatives William Bassett (his grandfather), Benjamin Needler (clerk of the council and husband of one of his aunts) and Robert Tucker (husband of another aunt). 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. Career