Descendants Clement Corbin » James Corbin Sr. (1662-1736)

Persoonlijke gegevens James Corbin Sr. 

• Hij is geboren op 31 maart 1662 in Muddy River (now Brookline), Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bronnen 2, 3, 4, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

  (G.S.I.) (1665 per Boston rec)

• Beroep: Bricklayer.Bron 4
• Eigendom: in het jaar 1732 (es e was the donor of land for the Corbin cemetery), Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 20
• (Land Records) op 6 april 1686: He drew home Lot No. 2, on the west side of Plaine Hill, now called Wo.
• (SAR) : SAR Membership Number: 51901.Bron 1
• (Pioneer) in het jaar 1686: He came as a 'pioneer' to Woodstock, his father Clement came the nex.Bron 21
• (Public Office) in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA: First Selectman (one of a board of officials elected in towns of all N.Bron 5
• (Removed) in het jaar 1727: James went from Woodstock to Dudley in1727, and donated land in Dudle.Bron 22
• (Public Office) tussen 1735 en 1739: Surveyor of Highways.Bron 23
• Hij is overleden op 11 augustus 1736 in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2, 5, 7, 13, 15, 22

  (G.S.I.) d, ae.74

• Hij is begraven in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.Bronnen 3, 5, 7, 15

  (Corbin Cemetery; James Corbin, Sr. doner)

• Een kind van Clement [First Settler] Corbin en Dorcas Buckminster

Gezin van James Corbin Sr.

Hij is getrouwd met Hannah Eastman.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 7 april 1697 te Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA, hij was toen 35 jaar oud.Bronnen 2, 10, 11, 14, 21, 24, 25

Kind(eren):

1. 2d Hannah Corbin  1717-1718
2. Elisha 'Elijah' Corbin  1713-1797 
3. 1st Hannah Corbin  -1716
4. 3rd Hannah 'Joanna' Corbin  1721-????
5. James Corbin  -1759 
6. Stephen Corbin  1710-????
7. Mary Corbin  -1795 
8. Samuel Corbin  1715-1782 
9. Clement Corbin  -1758 
10. Philip Corbin  -1774 
11. Dorcas Corbin   

Gebeurtenis (Source): History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America.

Notities over James Corbin Sr.

Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Ph.B., B.D., "History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline) Mass. and Woodstock, Conn.", 1905, p. 23 #5 "JAMES CORBIN (Clement), "b. Mar 31, 1665*, at Muddy River (now Brookline, Mass.), m. Hannah Eastman, April 7 (or 27), 1697, by Rev. Josiah Dwight, at Woodstock. She was the dau. of Philip and Mary (Barnard Morse) Eastman, and was b. Nov 5, 1679, in Haverhill, Mass." (* 1662 per tombstone)

Philip Eastman was the son of Roger, the first comer and progenitor of the Eastman family in America, who was b. in Wales in 1611, and d. in Salisbury, Mass., Dec 16, 1694. He m. Sarah Smith (?), b.1621, and d. March 11, 1697, in Salisbury. He sailed from Southampton, April, 1638, in the ship Confidence for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He received lands in Salisbury 1640-3. His third son, Philip, b. Oct 20, 1644, in Salisbury, m. for his second wife Mary (Barnard) Morse, Aug 22, 1678. She was b. Sep 22, 1645, being the dau. of Thomas and Alenor Barnard of Newburyport, and was the widow of Anthony Morse. Philip Eastman was a soldier in King Philip's War. He lived in Haverhill, where his house was burned by the Indians March 15, 1697, and he and some of his family were captured and dispersed. After his escape he settled in Woodstock., Conn. He d. before 1714 (See Eastman Genealogy, compiled by Guy S. Rix of Concord, N.H.)"

James CORBIN was one of the first settlers of "New Roxbury," (was Roxbury, then New Roxbury, part of Mass., now Woodstock), Windham County, Connecticut. He was one of the "second goers" from Roxbury to Woodstock, and was one of the first thirty proprietors in the division of land, April 6, 1686. He then received "Home Lot No. 2," consisting of twenty acres and lying on the west side of "Plaine Hill," now Woodstock Hill. (See Miss Larned's "History of Windham County, Connecticut"). In 1690 he drew Lot No. 32. At that time a lot was also given to his brother Jabez, beside his own, and also one to their father Clement CORBIN. In the records James is called a "brick layer." In 1693 Woodstock first "attained the convenience of a shop," twelve rods of land being allowed to Jabez were the first traders in the colony. Their shop on "Plaine Hill" soon became the center of much traffic. They dealt largely in furs, collected turpentine from the neighboring forests, and took in the surplus produce of the planters, taking them to Boston and exchanging them for "liquor, ammunition, and other necessaries." James CORBIN's "cart" was one of the institutions of Woodstock, its chief avenue of communication with the outer world, and its owner was a person of no small influence and consideration. In 1700 Indian troubles arose in Woodstock, and James CORBIN's cart was on the road from Boston and in great danger of interception and capture by the enemy, but on the following Sunday news came that the cart was approaching, and sixty men with arms went out of meet it, and brought it in with great rejoicing. In 1700, also, James CORBIN was desired not to dispose of any ammunition to any Indian but with the approbation of Capt. Sabin or Rev. Mr. Dwight.

About 1705 a large part of the Township of Ashford was purchased by James CORBIN, who supplied the new settlers with necessaries and collected such quantities of furs that "he had much ado to get them conveyed to the great street in Boston," his cart, drawn by four oxen and four horses, often breaking down on the rough road between Woodstock and Mendon.

In 1694 a square piece of land in front of James CORBIN's, containing four or five acres, was sequestered for a training place and burial ground, and still forms a part of Woodstock's Pleasant Common. Also a piece of land between Jabez CORBIN's and the highway was set apart for a school. In 1721 a new house of worship was completed, or nearly so, and sixteen persons were allowed to build pews around the walls. Among these were James CORBIN and Jabez CORBIN.

James CORBIN removed to Dudley, Mass., the town just north of Woodstock, and about seven miles distant from his former home, about the year 1724. Dudley (first called Kekamoochang) was incorporated Jan 1,1732. James CORBIN was one of the first selectmen that year. He was moderator of the town meeting in 1732, 1733, 1734, and 1735. In 1732 he was appointed, with his son Clement, to lay out highways, and in 1733 to "run the Line round our Township." In 1732 he was on a committee to arrange for the settlement of the first pastor at Dudley. In 1734 he was on a committee "to privid preaching for the town for the year insuing and also to privid a place to board the minister at." Also to see about some land we hope to obtain of the Indians for our meeting house and burying-place and training-field and also fifty acres adjoining for a pasnaig" (parsonage). He is said to have given to Dudley the land for the burying-ground. He died in Dudley August 11, 1736, and was buried in the old cemetery there. The inscription on his gravestone, which is now well-nigh illegible, reads: "In memory of Mr. James CORBIN, who died August 11, 1736, age 74 years." If his age is here rightly given he was born in 1662 instead of *1665.

His wife, Hannah CORBIN, died July 15, 1752, at the house of her son Samuel, aged 73. The Dudley Probate Records show that on August 14, 1752, Samuel CORBIN was appointed administrator on the estate of his late mother. An inventory of "household effects and cloathing" amounted to f5 11s. 11d.

On November 22, 1729, Clement CORBIN and James CORBIN, Jr., sold to John Chandler of Woodstock a lot in Kakamowachaug (Dudley), also the home lot granted "to their honored father, James CORBIN, situated in Woodstock near the meeting-house containing by estimation 20 acres, also a mansion house, barn and mantthouse."

For many years after James CORBIN's death there was much controversy over the ownership of the large tract of land in Ashford to which he had a claim. In May, 1774, a petition was presented to the Connecticut legislature by "Benjamin Marcy, Asahel Marcy, and Mary Marcy, widow, all of Woodstock in Windham County, and Dorcas Barnes of Plymouth, Mass., as they are the only descendants from the legal representatives of James CORBIN, late of Dudley," showing that, in June, 1708, James CORBIN, then of Woodstock, purchased of Major James Fitch of Canterbury 21,400 acres of land in Ashford and made many sales therefrom; encroachments were made on this tract, but the General Assembly in 1719 confirmed it to said CORBIN. Notwithstanding, the inhabitants and settlers of Ashford kept encroaching on this land. So the petitioners asked liberty to take up 910 acres of the undivided land, and also to hold 1, 375 acres within the patent granted to said CORBIN.
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(Col. Records of Connecticut, XIV, p. 282, see also the Records for 1717-1725, where a patents of 2,176 acres was granted to James CORBIN.) "In judging of the character of James CORBIN we may conclude that he was a man of tremendous energy and great ability. This is shown by his leaving Muddy River at the age of 21 to settle in the wilderness now Woodstock, by his becoming the trader for the new settlement and running his cart with great difficulty to Boston, by his acquiring a large part of the Township of Ashford, and, finally, as if longing for "new worlds to conquer," when about 60 years of age, by the leaving the town of Woodstock (where perhaps life had become too easy and comfortable) to again settle in the wilderness and help form the present town of Dudley. His prominent position there and the esteem in which he was held are shown by the offices to which his fellow-townsmen elected him. Such were the men that subdued the American wilderness and laid the foundations for our nation."

All these dates are from the Woodstock town records, except that of the birth of Samuel, which was doubtless omitted by negligence. That he was the son of James and Hannah is proved by the Dudley Probate Records, which speak of her death at his house and his being appointed her administrator.

The Woodstock records also give the death of an Elisha CORBIN, Sep 23, 1716. But Elisha CORBIN lived, was active for many years, and left numerous descendants. Most likely the name is a mistake for Hannah, the fifth child, who died young. Some persons give a Hannah, b. Dec 15, 1718, but that is a mistake from misreading the town records "born," instead of "died,"

James CORBIN was the only heir to his father Clement CORBIN's estate (which Clement inherited from Robert Falmouth in 1676) James sold the farm land to John Rogers in 1698, two years after his father's death. (Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p.162).
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(Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Genealogical and Personal Memoirs), Editor John W. Jordan, LL.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Ex-General Registrar of Sons of the Revolution and Registrar of Pennsylvania Society, Volume I, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1978. p. 622)

"James CORBIN, only son of Clement and Dorcas (Buckmaster) CORBIN, was born at Muddy River, Massachusetts in 1656. He was a resident of Roxbury and was present at the meeting held to consider the selection of the site of the town of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, October 6, 1683. When the town was incorporated under the provisions of an act of the General Court, he located in Woodstock and received considerable grants of land there, and later inherited land originally granted to his father. He was one of the council of the proprietors and a selectman of that town, where he resided for many years. He later removed to Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, near the almost if not quite continuously from 1732 to 1740, surveyor in 1734 and constable in1735. He died intestate in 1747. He married, April 7, 1679, Hannah, Daughter of Nathaniel Eastman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Jared and Hannah Haddon, of the same place."
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Clarence Winthrop Bowen, Ph.D, LL.D. "The History of Woodstock Connecticut," pp. 59,164
"James went from Woodstock to Dudley in 1727, and gave Dudley land for a cemetery.
(Original Source: Settlement of Dudley," paper read before Quinebaug Historical Society, by Samuel Morris Conant, Oct 29, 1900."
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Ellen D. Larned, "History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760," p. 22-23
"These Colonists were all men of good position and character, connected with the best families of Roxbury. Edward Morris, Samuel Scarborough, Samuel Craft, John Chandler and William Lyon, Seniors, Jonathan Peake and Henry Bowen were men advanced in years, going out with grown up sons to the new settlement, leaving estates behind them. A larger number were young men with growing families. A few were still unmarried. None were admitted as proprietors under nineteen years of age. All were inhabitants of Roxbury but Peter Spinwall of Roxbury, Suffix County, Massachusetts, and John Butcher, James CORBIN and John Holes, from neighboring towns, admitted into the company by consent of the selectmen of Roxbury. Benjamin Sabin had removed recently from Rehoboth, driven thence it is said the Narraganset War."

p.35
"... allowed to Jabez CORBIN for that purpose. James CORBIN and his son Jabez were the first traders or speculators of the Roxbury Colony, and their shop on Plaine Hill soon became a place of much public resort and the centre of an extensive traffic. They dealt largely in furs; they collected turpentine from the adjoining forests; they took in the surplus produce of the planters, exchanging them and any marketable commodities for liquor, ammunition and other necessaries in Boston. The Indians, whose drunkenness caused such grief to good men, may have received their liquor from the CORBIN's in exchange for peltry."James CORBIN's cart" was one of the institutions of Woodstock, its chief avenue of communication with the outer world, and its owner was a person of no small influence and consideration."

p. 36
"Reservations of land were set aside for public purposes." A piece of land between Jabez CORBIN's and the highway," and also "a piece of meadow lot," were devoted to maintaining a school. A square piece of land in front of James CORBIN's, containing four or five acres, was sequestered for a training-place and burial-ground, and still forms a part of Woodstock's pleasant common..."

p. 41 "Indian Troubles"
James CORBIN's cart, laden with ammunition, was on the road from Boston in great danger of interception and capture by the enemy. News had come that the fugitives traveled sixteen miles the first night, though divers children were much frozen, and on a man nearly drowned in crossing a river..."

p. 42 "History of Windham County"
..."News came during the day that James CORBIN's cart was approaching, and sixty men with arms went out to met it and brought it in with great rejoicing....

p.45 "Important Changes, Etc."
..."A large part of this latter township was purchased by James CORBIN, who still continued his trading operations, supplied the new settlements with cider and other liquors, and gathered such quantities of "deer-skins, beaver skins, beaver and other furs," that he had "much ado" to get them conveyed to the Great Street in Boston, his cart, drawn by four oxen and four horses, breaking down often in the rough roads between Woodstock and Mendon."...

p. 54 "History of Windham County"
... April 13, 1721, the committee reported the house in fair way to completion, and liberty was granted by the town to sixteen persons to build pews, the minister's serving for standard. Captain John Chandler had liberty to build a pew for himself and family next to the pulpet stairs." following him in order, were Samuel Morris, John Chandler, Jun., Samuel Perrin, Jabez CORBIN, John Marcy, Deacon Edward Morris, Deacon John Johnson, James CORBIN...

p. 57 "Ministerial Troubles, Etc."
James CORBIN alone dissented from this vote--"the covenant having been compiled with and not seeing cause to exceed it."

p. 161 "Aspinock. Killingly"
...Turpentine was gathered here in large quantities from its numerous pine trees by that noted trader, James CORBIN. James and Joseph, Sons of John Leavens, were thus employed by him in 1700.

p. 216 "History of Windham County"
..."These forests abounded in wolves, bears and various species of game, and were a favorite hunting- ground of the remaining Wabbaquasset's, furnishing large quantities of furs for James CORBIN's fur trade, and perhaps led to his land purchase."...
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Abstract and Index of the Records of the Inferiour Court of Pleas (Suffolk County Court)
Held at Boston 1690-1698 (typed as written).
Prepared by The Historical Records Survey Division of Professional and Service Projects Work Projects Administration, Boston Massachusetts 1940
Date Microfilm 12-3-70 Item on Roll 5 Camera No. SLC-2 Catalogue No. 823824
Inferiour Court of Pleas
Index to Criminal Cases
Part II 1684-1692
Page January 1, 1684 (1674.5)
March 26, 1685
947.46 p2h
218."James Corbyn, Muddy River; neglecting to assist constable in making an arrest; F 10s."

Another Source:
Colonial and Evolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume I

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