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- ↑ Return J. Meigs, The Corbins of Virginia: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Corbin who Settled in Virginia in 1654 (1940) p. 17
- ↑ Robert Barnes (indexer), Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of history and Biography, vol.2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1981) pp. 350-351
- ↑ Barnes pp. 350-351
- ↑ 1810 U.S. Federal Census for King and Queen County, Virginia p. 6 of 34.
- ↑ 1810 U.S. Federal Census for Urbanna, Middlesex County p. 3 of 16
- ↑ 1820 U.S. Federal Census for Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia p.9 of 11
- ↑ Barnes p. 350
- ↑ Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, vol. 1 p. 437 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company 2001), previously published as Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850
- ↑ His cousin, Richard Henry Corbin, son of Gawin Corbin Jr. who was born in 1775, educated at the University of Cambridge, reportedly died before taking his seat in 1798. Compare Barnes (indexer) p. 345 with p. 350-351
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 204, 212, 216
- ↑ Meigs p. 17
- ↑ barnes pp. 350-351
- ↑ Barnes pp358-359
- ↑ https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00735.xml