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Table of Contents > Colonial America > Lot 52 |
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Lot Number: 52
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Bookplate from the Library of Richard Corbin, Appointed Receiver General of Virginia 1754 George Washington Received His First Military Commission through Corbin |
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Richard Corbin (1713-1790), His Engraved Bookplate from his Library, "Corbin Hall", Middlesex County, and "Laneville", King and Queen County, Virginia. Mentor to George Washington, Original Bookplate laid on the inside of a front book cover Very Fine. From Museum Card & Consignor’s Notes: This book plate is from the library of Richard Corbin of "Corbin Hall", Middlesex County, and "Laneville", King and Queen County, VA.Richard Corbin was the son of Colonel Gawain Corbin of the same place. For many years, he was one of the most eminent and influential men in the Colony of Virginia. Educated at The College of William & Mary, he was a justice and represented his county in the House of Burgesses in 1751. Colonel Corbin was appointed Receiver General of Virginia about 1754. Through Corbin's influence, George Washington received his first military commission in the service of the colony. A Major's Commission was obtained and sent to him with the following letter: "Dear George, --- I enclose your commission. God prosper you with it. -- Your Friend, -- Richard Corbin". Provenance: A Major History Museum in Virginia. The son of powerful planter Gawin Corbin and his second wife, Jane Lane, Corbin received an education appropriate to his class from private tutors at home, then the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, and probably finished his education in England. Corbin first won election to the House of Burgesses representing Middlesex County after his father's death. However, his time in the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly proved short. He was nominated for a seat on the Governor's Council, on which he served until the dissolution of the body at the start of the American Revolutionary War. He also served as the county lieutenant of Essex County beginning in 1752. As the Crown's Receiver General from 1754-1776, he was responsible for financing Virginia's troops in the French and Indian War, and became a Mentor of young George Washington. Decades later, after Lord Dunmore seized the colony's gunpowder at Williamsburg, Patrick Henry traveled to Corbin's main plantation (Laneville) to demand payment. Corbin died at the Laneville plantation at which he was born, but was initially buried at the family's Buckingham plantation. The graves were later moved to Christ Episcopal Church in Middlesex County. Virginia has erected a historical marker to commemorate Patrick Henry's journey to now-disappeared Laneville. The John D. Rockefeller Library of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation his papers and those of his descendants. |
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Lot Number: 52
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