Descendants Clement Corbin » John Corbin Sr. (1698-1751)

Personal data John Corbin Sr. 

• He was born on December 11, 1698 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Sources 1, 3
• Title: [Lieut]
• Resident after 1760: Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten.Sources 3, 4
• (Public Office) in the year 1760: Surveyor.Source 4
• (Public Office) May 1753: Commissioned by the General Assembly ensign, and in October of the sam.Source 3
• He died in the year 1751 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA, he was 52 years old.Source 3
• He is buried in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten.Source 3

  John CORBIN
  Birth 24 May 1710
  Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
  Death 1758 (aged 47-48)
  Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, USA
  Burial Unknown
  Memorial ID 125111987 ·

  (buried with his wife)

• A child of Jabez Corbin and Mary Morse

Household of John Corbin Sr.

He is married to Martha Hosmer.

They got married on April 3, 1728 at Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA, he was 29 years old.Sources 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Child(ren):

1. Amasa Corbin  -1812
2. Lois Corbin  -1735
3. 2d Asa Corbin  1740-1740
4. William Corbin  1744-???? 
5. 1st Asa Corbin  1735-1740
6. 1st Joseph Corbin  1747-1750
7. John Corbin  1729-1803 
8. Joseph Corbin  1751-1838 
9. Dorcas Corbin  1730-???? 
10. Sybil Corbin  1732-????
11. Darius Corbin  1737-1756
12. Asa Corbin  -1808 

Event (Children): Twelve.Sources 3, 11

Notes about John 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, pp. 34-35 #16 LIEUT. John CORBIN, b. Dec 11, 1698, at Woodstock; m. Martha Hosmer, dau. of James and Elizabeth Hosmer, April 3, 1728.

JAMES Hosmer, the father of Martha, was b. Oct 23, 1660, at Concord, Mass., and m. Elizabeth Sawyer, February. 16, 1687; she was b. Feb. 6, 1663, at Lancaster, Mass., and d. Jan 15, 1745, at Woodstock. He probably lived in Lancaster for a time, afterwords settled in Worcester, and removed to Woodstock before 1710, where he became prominent. His father, James Hosmer, was b. in Concord, Mass., in 1637; m. Sarah White, Oct 13 1758; and was killed in battle of Sudbury, April 21, 1676 (see N.E. Gen. Reg., Vol 20, pp. 347, 348). Sarah White was the dau. of Capt. John White and sister of the famous Mrs. Rowlandson, who was taken prisoner in King Philip's War, and afterwords published a book on her hardships. Capt. John White of Salem, in 1638, went to Lancaster, and was one of the founders of that place, a leading man and the largest landholder. He was b. in England and d. in 1655. His children were all prominent.

James Hosmer the first, Father of the above, was b. in 1607, and m. Anna____, who was b. in 1608. He came from London in the ship Elizabeth in 1635. Their English home was in Hawkhurst, in Kent, County. They brought with them two servants and two daughters: Mary, aged 2 years, and Ann, 3 months. He was one of the founders of Concord, and had b. there: James, 1637; John 1639; and others. He was a freeman, May 17, 1637, and d. February. 7, 1685. He was a man of influence. Anna, his wife, d. May 11, 1641."

John CORBIN lived in Thompson, Connecticut, which was then a part of Killingly, and about six miles east of his father's house in Woodstock. There he built the second house, which was located on the southern side of Thompson Hill, on the site of the present Chandler residence (1905). In May, 1753, he was commissioned by the General Assembly ensign, and, in October of the same year, lieutenant of the South Company or Train Band in the town of Killingly. (Col. Records of Conn.) In 1760 he was a highway surveyor for Killingly. He d. and, with his wife, was buried at Thompson."

The History of Woodstock Connecticut, Genealogies of Woodstock Families, 1852-1935; pp.66 & 164, "He was made Ensign in May and Lieutenant in Oct 1753, and Surveyor in 1760.

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