Richard Corbin Papers, 1746-1825.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528

Summary

Creator:
Richard Corbin, ca. 1708-1790.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Letters and accounts of Richard Corbin. Included are warrants for payments from the Virginia quitrents; accounts and letters with Osgood and Capel Hanbury, his London agents; memoranda and accounts regarding his plantations; accounts with tradesmen; and accounts, legal papers, and letters to his son, Richard Corbin, Jr., which comprise most of the later material.

The three volumes include Corbin's letterbook, 1758-1768, with copies of letters and invoices to Edward Athawes, Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie, the Hanburys, Edmund Jenings, Philip Ludwell, John Roberts, Ralph Wormeley, Charles Goore, the Rev. Beilby Porteus, and others; his tobacco book, 1746-1790, recording annual quantity, origin, place of inspection, disposition, and overseers' shares; and the diary of John Harrower, 1773-1776, Scottish indentured tutor of Col. William Daingerfield's children. Daingerfield, of Belvidera, near Fredericksburg, Va., was a neighbor of the Corbins.

Prominent names in the papers include Jaquelin Ambler, Leroy Anderson, Burwell Bassett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carter, Robert Cary, Robert Cholemondeley, James Lee, John Norton and Sons, John Robinson, James Semple, Benjamin Tomkins, and Benjamin Waller.

Biographical / historical:

Richard Corbin (ca. 1708-1790) served as a burgess, councillor, and receiver general of Virginia, 1761-1776.

Acquisition information:
Deposit, 1971.
Arrangement:

Chronologically arranged.

Physical description:
3 volumes and 370 items.