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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. and daughters, but the male lines of all of his sons, except Henry, are extinct. Thomas Corbin, the eldest son, had an only datighter and heiress, Margaret (I658-I699), who married William Lygon, Esq., and carried the estate to that family, since become Earls Beauchamp, Henry Corbin, third son of Thomas and Winifred Corbin, was born in I629, came to Virginia in I654, and died in Middlesex county, June 8, 1675. He was a member of the Virginia Council, married Alice, daughter of Richard Eltonhead of Eltonhead, Lancashire, and was ancester of the well known Virginia family of the name.] EDWARD PERRIN, City of Bristol, Merchant. Will 8 June I702, proved 23 December I709. To be buried near my.last wife in the Quaker's burial ground. Sole executor: son Thomas Perrin, to whom I give all my land in Virginia, Mary land, Pennsilvania, or elsewhere in America, also the house Isaac Noble lives in in Castle Street in Bristol, and another in Castle Street where William Nicholas lives, he to pay my two daughters Susanna and Anne Perrin ?3oo each when 21 or married. To my three younger children, Edward, Susanna, and Anne, my messuage in which I now live. To son Edward two messuages in Broadmead, St. James Parish, adjoining the house of widow Skinner, both now in possession of Widow Evans and John Baker, and three messuages in Chapell Street in St Philip and Jacob in possession of Robert Rookes, and my silver watch when of age. Overseers: Robert Ruddle, my brother-in-law, and Cornelius Sarjant of Bristol, sopemaker, and Benjamin Morse, Hosier. Witnesses: Sam'l Fox, Thos. Hayne, John Brinsden. Lane, 295. [Possibly ancester of the Perrins of Gloucester county. Virginia. The births of several children of Thomas and Elizabeth Perrin appear in the register of Abingdon parish, Gloucester, between I686 and 1702. See William and Mary Quarterly, V, 174.] (TO BE CONTINUED.)