| Benjamin CORBIN
Sarah SIAS |
| NOTICE: a patrilineal descendant of our subject is participating in the CORBIN Y-chromosome DNA Surname Project. Anyone who suspects he descends from our subject on a direct male line can support that connection with a DNA test. This descendant is a high level match with two descendants of Benjamin's brother, William. |
| Husband: Benjamin CORBIN
Birth: 1722 or 1730 or ca. 1732, Baltimore Co., MD Death: 16 Jun 1813, Baltimore Co., MD Y-DNA Haplogroup: R1b1b2 Sibling certainly: William
CORBIN
Some secondary sources give our subject these parents,
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| Marriage: 9 Dec 1755, St. John's Parish, Baltimore Co., MD |
| Wife: Sarah SIAS / SYAS / SYAR / SYER / SIER / SIERS / SEARS
/ etc.
Birth: 1736-40, Baltimore Co., MD Death: 1813, Baltimore Co., MD Siblings: Joseph SIAS, Benjamin SIAS, and Keziah (SIAS) LANE Some secondary sources give Sarah these parents, but I have found
no proof of the connection.
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| Children — born in Baltimore [now Carroll] Co., MD: |
| 1. Ezekiel
CORBIN, b. 1757
2. Elijah CORBIN, b. 1760 3. Benjamin CORBIN, b. ca. 1762 4. Micajah CORBIN, b. 1765 5. Joseph CORBIN, b. 1770 6. Asahel / Asel / Achel CORBIN, b. 1774 7. Sarah Ruth CORBIN, b. 30 Apr 1774 8. Nicodemus CORBIN, b. 1775/78 There is a six- to ten-year gap here. 9. Keziah CORBIN, b. 1784/5; never married If Asahel really was born in 1774, then he has to be the twin of Sarah Ruth. Two additional children have been attached to Benjamin & Sarah by
secondary sources, but they were not mentioned as children of Sarah (SIAS)
CORBIN by her granddaughter, Keziah (GREENLAND) SHANAFELT, in her letter
of 1858 (see below) — and surely a daughter knows the identities of her
mother's siblings. Further supporting that these two are not
our subjects' children is that there is no room for either Sophia or Shadrach
as children in Benjamin & Sarah's 1790 census record (see below).
And, as if we needed more proof, in the 1880 Census, James SIAS, son of
James & Sophia (CORBIN) SIAS, indicates that his mother was born in
North
Carolina, which makes it impossible for Sophia to be Benjamin &
Sarah's child because Benjamin & Sarah were born, lived, and died in
Maryland.
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| Sources:
1a. Henry C. Peden, Jr. 1987. St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, Baltimore & Harford County, Maryland, 1969-1851: transcribed from Microfilm in the Maryland Historical Society Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Family Line Publ., Westminster, MD (Broderbund CD-178). On p. 99:
1b. Robert Barnes. 1978/93. Maryland Marriages, 1778-1800. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD (Broderbund CD-195).
1c. Robert W. Barnes. 1989. Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD (Broderbund CD-195):
1d. Marriage Index: Maryland, 1655-1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-224):
2. Richard B. Miller. 1985. "Index to the Signers of the 1768 Joppa Petitions of Baltimore County, Maryland." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 26(4): 393-428 (Broderbund CD-208).
3. John Davis. 1996. Baltimore County, Maryland, Deed Records, Volume Four: 1767-1775. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.
4. 1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #42 of 55 — list roughly alphabetized; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
5. 1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, but our elderly couple is presumably living with one of their married children. 6. 1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, but our elderly couple is presumably living with one of their married children. The only Benjamin CORBIN in the county, living in Mine Run Hundred (nowhere near Westminster), appears to be our subjects' son. 7. Letter, dated 19 Jun 1858, from Keziah (GREENLAND) SHANAFELT of Clarion Co., PA, to her son, Thomas. Keziah is a granddaughter of Benjamin & Sarah (SIAS) CORBIN. The letter is in the possession of Laurel Shanafelt Powell of Colorado; Lorinda Clendenon Greenland generously posted a transcription at her web site.
8. Irene A. Nielsen. 1983. "Query: CORBIN, LYE, KELLEY." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 24(2): 175.
9. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 1, Pedigree #2346; Vol. 40, Pedigree #356 (has Benjamin born 1730). 10. The Gene Pool (online at Ancestry.com):
11. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com). 12. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com). |
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