Carter Braxton was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence,a merchant,Virginia planter,and a Founding Father of the United States. A grandson of Robert "King" Carter,one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion,Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years,generally allied with Landon Carter,Benjamin Harrison V,Edmund Pendleton and other conservative planters.
Mann Page (1749–1781),sometimes referred to as Mann Page III,was an American lawyer,politician and planter from Spotsylvania County,Virginia,who served in the House of Burgesses and first Virginia House of Delegates as well as a delegate for Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1777. His elder half brother was Virginia Governor John Page. Since the name was common in the family,and five men of the same name served in the Virginia General Assembly,relationships are discussed below.
Richard Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council. Although a noted Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,he considered himself a Virginian and two of his descendants of the same name also served in the Virginia General Assembly following the conflict.
Col. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) of Alexandria,Westmoreland,Virginia Colony,was an American planter,soldier,and politician,the father of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III,and grandfather of Robert E. Lee.
Thomas Grosvenor Corbin was a career United States Navy officer descended from the First Families of Virginia who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War,during which he served as commandant of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy and commanded a ship in the Union blockade of southern ports during the conflict. Since he never married,but had many relatives,including military members,across the United States,his relation to Air Force Major General Thomas Goldsborough Corbin (1917-1992) is unclear.
Colonel John Tayloe II was a planter and politician,among the richest planters in colonial Virginia. He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council,also known as the Virginia Council of State.
Col. John Tayloe I was one of the richest plantation owners and businessmen in Virginia for his generation. Considered to be the chief architect of the family fortune,he was known as the "Hon. Colonel of the Old House". The Tayloe family of Richmond County,Virginia,including John Tayloe I,his son,John Tayloe II,and grandson,John Tayloe III,exemplified gentry entrepreneurship.
Christopher Robinson was a planter,merchant and politician in the British colony of Virginia. Robinson held several public offices in Colonial Virginia and is the patriarch in America for one of the First Families of Virginia.
Henry Corbin was an emigrant from England who became a tobacco planter in the Virginia colony and served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,in the House of Burgesses representing Lancaster County before the creation of Middlesex County on Virginia's Middle Neck,then on the Governor's Council.
Laetitia Corbin Lee was an American colonist. She was the daughter of Henry Corbin,one of the most powerful and influential political leaders in the Colony of Virginia. In 1674 she married the politician Richard Lee II,and joined the prominent Lee family of Virginia. The Maryland branch of the Lee family descends from her through her son,Philip Lee of Blenheim Plantation. Another of her sons,Thomas,built Stratford Hall,the future family seat of the Lees.
Christopher Robinson was a Virginia-born planter and politician who followed the path of his merchant and emigrant father,Col. Christopher Robinson,the patriarch of the Robinson family of Virginia.
John Grymes or Grimes was Virginia planter and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,first representing Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses(1718-1722) and on Virginia Governor's Council(1726-1748).
Ralph Wormeley who like his namesake grandfather was a planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses. He ans his bookloving and loyalist son also operatedRosegill plantation,now on the National Register for Historic Places,using enslaved labor.
Ralph Wormeley was a Virginia planter who served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Council (1771-1775),was suspected of being a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,and after the conflict represented Middlesex County,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates (1788-1791) as well as at the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788,where he voted in favor of ratification of the federal Constitution.
Gawin Corbin Jr.,although trained as a lawyer in England,became a Virginia planter,loyalist militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly as had his father Richard Corbin.
Gawin Corbin (1669-1745) was a Virginia planter,militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing at various times Middlesex and King and Queen County.
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.
Francis Corbin was a Virginia lawyer,planter and politician,who represented Middlesex County in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Ratifying Convention and later moved to Caroline County.
Richard Corbin was a Virginia planter,officer and politician who at times represented Middlesex County and King and Queen County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Gawin Lane Corbin was a Virginia planter,officer and politician who thrice represented York County in the Virginia House of Delegates and was severely wounded defending Hampton in the War of 1812.
