1.  Essex County, Virginia, Marriages, 1655-1900 (online at Ancestry.com):

: 1696, : CORBIN, JOHN : Richmond Co. married Elizabeth daughter of Wm. Smith Book: D 9, Page: 55

2.  A.M. Prichard.  1930.  Allied Families of Read, Corbin, Luttrell, Bywaters: Starting from Culpeper County, Virginia, Their Descendants Are Now Planted in Every State Westward to the Pacific.  McClure Co., Inc., Printers, Staunton, Virginia (online at Ancestry.com):

Prichard has, in my opinion, made too many connections with too little evidence.  The sad result is that these unsupported connections have been accepted and promulgated uncritically ever since.
p. 101	THE CORBIN FAMILY
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p. 103	JOHN CORBIN The first record of John Corbin appears in Richmond County, Virginia, in 1692, the year the county was formed.  The most interesting record, however, is the following deed of record in Essex County, Virginia, which identifies the wife of John Corbin as Elizabeth, the daughter of William Smith: "Know all men by these presents that I Robert Waight do for me my heirs Exes. and Admes: for a valuable consideration: in hand already Received give grant bargaine and sell unto John Corbin and Elizabeth Corbin his wife, of Richmond County their heirs Exes: Admes: & Assignes for Ever a parcell of Land lyeing and being in the above sd. County Containing, one hundred Acres bounded as followeth... wch. sd. Land was given by my deced father John Waight to my Sister Elizabeth Vickers, and by her Sold to William Smith father of the above sd. Elizabeth Corbin... In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seale this tenth day of August Ano. Dom. 1696. ROBERT WAIGHT (Seale)..." The land above described may have been, likely was, the portion given by William Smith upon the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth, to John Corbin.  This would seem to be a reasonable conjecture from the language of the deed. By deed of 21 Feb. 1692, Richard Shippie of St. Mary's Parish, Richmond County, and Eleanor, his wife, conveyed unto "John Corbin of the aforesaid parish and county, a certain tract of land containing 160 acres, part of 640 acres formerly belonging to John and George Motts." The
	Transcriber's Note:  I see nothing to suggest that William SMITH gave the land to John CORBIN as a wedding gift or for any other reason.  John clearly paid for the land.  What is not clear is how land sold to William SMITH by Elizabeth (WAIGHT) VICKERS is being sold again by Robert WAIGHT.
p. 104	certificate of Eleanor Shippie's acknowledgment to the foregoing deed was not in confomity with law; and, to cure the defect, she executed another deed for the same property on the 28 Feb. 1737, referring to the deed above mentioned, describing John Corbin as then of Brunswick Parish, King George County, and the land as that"whereon the said Corbin now lives." On the 2 Mr. 1737, John Corbin conveyed the foregoing land to John Grant, excepting some fifty acres thereof which he conveyed unto his son, John Corbin Jr., by the following deed, viz: "TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE

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3.  Pedigree provided by a participant in the CORBIN Y-DNA Surname Project.

4.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

5.  Archives of the CORBIN Mailing List (online at RootsWeb.com).