Family
Some time before April 5, 1658, Corbin married Alice (Eltonhead), the widow of sometime burgess Rowland Burnham, whose brother was on the Maryland Governor's Council and whose several sisters married men on the Maryland and Virginia Governor' Councils, and daughter of Richard Eltonhead and wife Anne Sutton. During the marriage, she bore three sons (Henry, Thomas and Gawin), and five daughters (Laetitia, Alice, Winifred, Ann and Frances) who all married into the gentry. Gawin Corbin, like his father, would serve in the House of Burgesses, but represented Middlesex County. His youngest sister (this man's daughter) Frances (1666–1713) married Edmund Jenings (1659–1727) son of British barrister Sir Edmund Jennings (1626–1691) and Margaret Barkham (1626–1726), and who would become agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary for several years with Thomas Lee (whose brother Richard Lee II married her eldest sister, Letitia). However, the widower Jenings would die in disgrace and his property was foreclosed by powerful planter and burgess King Carter (with whom this man served) and by her brother Thomas Corbin. Colonel Lee, like Edmund Jenings, was a military leader, planter, politician, and member of the King's Council of Virginia. This man's sister Ann married William Tayloe, the nephew of William Tayloe (the immigrant) of King's Creek Plantation and High Sheriff of York County, Virginia, and bore John Tayloe I and progenitor of the Tayloe's of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. This man's sister Winifred (1661–1709) married Col. Leroy Griffin (1646–1702) and their son Thomas Griffin (1684–1732) would serve in the House of Burgesses representing Richmond County during the same 1715 session as his uncle Gawin, and their great-grandson Cyrus Griffin would become the final President of the Continental Congress of the Confederation and the first United States District judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia. Sister Ann Corbin (1664–1694) married merchant Philip Lightfoot of Charles City County, and their son Philip Lightfoot increased the family fortune as well as held government offices, most importantly on the Virginia Governor's Council.
