| Sources:
1. Baltimore County, Maryland. Will
of Edward Corbin, 1770. Maryland State Archives: CR72241-1,
Liber 3, Folio 144 (as transcribed by Cheryl Kemp Perkins, online in the
Archives of the Baltimore County MDGenWeb site). Summary (by DGM):
Testator: Edward CORBIN, Sr., of Baltimore Co., MD
Legatees—
Wife: Mary
Children: John, Edward, Eliakim, Rachel, Leah,
and Mary
Date Signed: 14 Jul 1770; Date Proved: 30 Nov 1770
Witnesses: Thos. HALE; George HARRYMAN, Jr.; Joseph SYARS |
George
HARRYMAN is Edward's first cousin; Joseph
SYARS/SIAS is the brother-in-law of Edward's nephew, Benjamin CORBIN.
2. Robert W. Barnes. 1989. Baltimore County Families,
1659-1759. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD (Broderbund
CD-195):
| p. 134 |
CORBIN, EDWARD (3), s. of Nicholas (1), was first
listed as a taxable in 1701, placing his birth date as c. 1685; alive in
1750; m. Jane, dau. of William Wilkinson some time prior to 1716; Sept.
1716 Edward Corbin and w. Jane sold John Bowen pt. of Corcell Hill and
on the same day John and Mary Bowen sold Corbin pt. of Jones' (or Jonas')
Range; in March 1722 Edward and Jane conv. widow Tamer Wilkinson 425 a.
Land Is All and 50 a. Wilkinson's Spring; in Sept. 1737 they sold Thomas
Sligh pt Corbin's Rest, which Edward said he had inher. from his father;
in 1750 owned 100 a. Cumberland; in May 1758 Edward and Jane conv. land
to Robert Wilkinson previously conv. to his mother in March 1722 (this
was done to clear up any question of title); had iss.: NICHOLAS (named
in the will of John Barrett in June 1717); poss.
EDWARD; poss. WILLIAM WILKINSON; ABRAHAM,
b. 7 Sept. 1722; PHYLIS-ANNA, b. 12 May 1725; PROVIDENCE, b. 26 June 1727;
UNITY, b. 2 March 1730...
CORBIN, EDWARD (4), s. of Edward (3) and Jane, may
be the Edward who d. leaving a will, 14 July 1770 - 30 Nov. 1770,
naming a w. Mary and six ch.: EDWARD, b. 11 April 1746; ELIAKIM; MARY;
JOHN; RACHEL; and LEAH...
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It's unclear to me why Barnes says, "poss. EDWARD," in the entry for his
father, then names him as Edward's son in his own entry. I'm
assuming the Edward who died in 1770 is the son, either of Edward or Nicholas,
but that may not be correct.
3. 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).
| p. 393 |
By 1768 it had become apparent that the once
thriving port of Joppa on the Gunpowder River was no longer capable of
handling the commercial shipping for which the port facilities of the rapidly
growing port of Baltimore Town on the Patapsco River were needed.
Largely as a result of this shift, it was obvious to most people that Baltimore
was a far more appropriate seat for the county government. The Assembly,
however, with great fairness, chose to make this determination on the basis
of a popular referendum, and ordered that petitions, both pro and con the
change, be circulated throughout the county to be signed by all adult males
over 18 -- virtually a census of adult county residents in 1768... |
| p. 399 |
Corbin, Edward, 533
Corbin, Edward, Juner, 539 |
Page numbers after individual's names are those of Appendix VII, Vol. LXI,
Archives
of Maryland, from which Miller compiled this alphabetical index.
Those opposing the petition have the page number underlined.
4. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 40,
Pedigree No. 356.
5. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org). |