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- ↑ Emory G. Evans, " Corbin, Richard (1713 or 1714-20 May 1790)" in Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 3, pp. 466-468 also available at https://ehttps://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Corbin_Richard/
- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, vol. 1 pp. 158-159
- ↑ Tyler p. 158
- ↑ Meigs pp. 9-10
- ↑ Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print 1987) p. 1245
- ↑ Meigs
- ↑ Return Jonathan Meigs, The Corbins of Virginia: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Corbin who Settled in Virginia in 1654 (1940) p. 11
- ↑ https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=25263
- ↑ https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00077.xml