From a letter written to Mrs. Luella Scott Eynon by Mrs. Luella Corbett Gault, 7-19-1931.

Cousins, some time ago, maybe two years in all, I took a notion to find out, if possible, about the Corbett family. I borrowed  the old trunk of brother Arza’s and got busy. There was little in it to help me so I wrote the Historical society of Worchester, Mass., and they sent me Eldad Corbett’s Revolutionary War record. I found material there and else where concerning .our first ancestors in this country, Robert Corbett, his marriage and family, the next in line, Daniel and his life, his son Daniel and his children of whom the old bible has a record, then on down as our record shows. On the gravestone  of Eldad’s  wife her name appears as Lydia, in Ballou’s History of Melford and Mendon, Mass., it states that Eldad married Hannah Stearns on July 20, 1775. I can not find that Eldad Corbett married a second time.

Milford and Menden Mass., has six full pages of Corbetts. I am very precious of this book and wish I had started this thing when Daddy was still living, it would have helped him in his several years of blindness before he died at the age of 91.

Grandmother Flora Corbett was a Wright. Uncle Albert’s youngest son, Albert Arza Corbett is dying in Gonna, New York. He was only two when his father died so doesn’t know anything about the Corbetts.

I found scads of relations on that side and wrote to England to the Old Manor, Action-Reynolds Hall,  the seat of the Corbett  family of nobles there, they say there is no question that we are of the same stock as they. Lady Ella Corbett, wife if Sir Gerald Vincent Corbett, wrote me a lovely letter and at her request  Artcher Corbett’s, a cousin of Sir Gerald’s, has written a number of letters and sent his pictures of their town, asked me to visit them at South Hampton and says they are coming to America some time.

It seems we are descended from Lord Hugo le Corbeau of Pays de Caux Normandy, France, who with his two sons Robert and Rodger Corbett went to England with William the Conqueror in 1006 and fought at the battle of Hastings. Rodger is said to have been William’s standard bearer in that battle.

They say in England that the Corbetts can trace their ancestry back to 850, the coming of Rollo the Norsemen into Normandy, France, conquering that territory. I am getting the coat of arms and will hang it on the wall as George Washington did and advised us to do.

I have had Grandfather’s and wife Lydia’s remains moved to a large, well-kept cemetery in Bridgewater where his grave could be properly marked as a soldier if the Revolution.

I want to put the date if the family in the Library of Congress as Henry Corbett did in 1815.