Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-05-13
THE JENNINGS ESTATE.

Messrs EpIToRs Your correspondent t." who was
the cause from the motives then assigned, ointroducing
this subject into the National Intclligencer has
greet that it has become such draught upon it.
In justice to himself (such he is you, Messrs.
Editors would render hm and to his family connexion
he will close the discussion, his part, with the
quvocal denial that he and they had design 'to de-
ceve and misead the unwary and unsuspecng heirs to
this immense estate by any statement that has been
made; that any member Of the family has had any
part knowledge of any payments in connexicn
with this matter much less of "$100000 to solicitor
to the dismissal of suit brought for the
ry of this property
t.. stated, in his communication, that he did not
pretend to have any knowledge of the geneaogy of the
Jennings family, of his, or of the Corbin connexion
with it, Of the claim to the estate thinking however,
that it might be possible sit may be revealed in due time
from some other quarter"
Since the publication of his article he has print
ed advertisement from Connecticut for the heirs Of the
estate Of William Jennings who died in England in 1882
The Buckingham letter may refer to the William
jennings who "died intestate and had wife"
Within few days. too IT, has learnt for the first time
that John Tayloe, Of Mount Airy by codicil to his
will, dated in January 1744 and admitted to probate
l4 says ~ give and devise to my friend and relative
Edmund Jennings Esq, Of the province Of Maryland,
&C. He also leaves legacy to his friend and relative
Thomas Lee "of Stratford, Westmoreand in county"
of 3D. father to the distinguished Richard Henry
Lee
The relationship Of the present Tayoe family to Ed
mund Jennings of Maryland and to the Lee family of
Straord is not to be traced in any other channel than
the English blood of William Taylor Tayloe, from
his wife, Anne Corbin," the daughter Of Henry Corbin
the first of the who emigrated from England and
settled " in King and Queen county" Virginia. rbout
the year 1885, or little earlier " according the ge-
neaogy of the Corbn and Lee families furnished by
your correspondent " b.. He also states that an Ed
mund Jennings President of the Council Gin Vir
GINA"
The late Col John Tayloe, Of Washington owned the
Corbin Patent sin Prince William county, part Of
which is now owned by the writer " that he concludes
were the Glands" "owned by Gavin Corbin which came
to him by conveyance and descent from Edmund Jen-
nings, ESQ.,
According to B g statement and the corroborang cir
cumstances here furnished it would appear that the
nexion, if any, between the Corbns Of Virginia and the
Jennings, whence the claim to the great inherit
was formed anterior to the emigration Of Henry Cor
bin TO Virginia, rs long ago rs 1862
This may be still subject Of interesting inquiry all
the descendants, who may be legion, of that Henry
Corbn.
II would seem that the several errors" chiefly Of
omission, into which T had fallen in his account Of
the Corbins of Virginia." were of no material conse
quence ~.
1t may be worthy Of remark prevent mistake as to
the present Corbin, Of the Reeds that the gentleman
referred to is Robert Corbn ESQ., Of the late Fran
els Corbin, whose father Richard Corbin of Lane
vile, who married daughter Of John Tayloe" as cor
rectly stated by "B" T.
with this communication, which justice to our friend,
Mr.. T., requires to admit beg to close the
discussion oil space is demanded by matters Of
more general interest--EdaOrs.l