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- ↑ Mary A. Hackett, " Corbin, Francis (1759 or 1760-23 May 1821)" in Dictionary of Virginia Biography vol. 3, pp. 461-462 also available at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Corbin_Francis
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- ↑ Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print 1987) p. 1245
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- ↑ 1810 U.S. Federal Census for Caroline County, Virginia pp. 4 of 26
- ↑ 1820 U.S. Federal Census for Caroline County, Virginia pp. 8-9 of 31
- ↑ Hackett
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leanard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, VIrginia State Library 1978) pp. 154, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 176, 180, 184, 188, 192, 196
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- ↑ Robert Barnes (indexer), Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of history and Biography, vol.2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1981) pp. 346-349
- ↑ Return Jonathan Meigs, The Corbins of Virginia: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Corbin who Settled in Virginia in 1654 (1940) p. 14-15
- ↑ Hackett