Gawin Corbin
BIRTH
Jan 1725
Peckatone plantation, Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia
DEATH
July 29, 1760
Peckatone plantation, Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia
FAMILY
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Corbin, Gawin
(1725-1760)
Gawin Corbin (1725-1760) was a planter and estate manager and the spouse of Hannah Lee Corbin. Hannah Lee Corbin was a planter and estate manager whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Gawin Corbin to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Although this life ended before the fighting for independence began, the marriage and family connections formed part of the colonial society inherited by the Revolutionary generation. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Gawin Corbin in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Hannah Lee Corbin
(1728-1782)
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DIED:
Peckatone plantation, Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia
Jul 29, 1760
The exact date and place of Gawin Corbin’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Gawin Corbin with work or public activity as a planter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Gawin Corbin died on Jul 29, 1760. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.