... As has been shown before, his mother [Anne Gorsuch] had probably died a year or two before this time [1686/87 will of David Jones]. ...
.. it would seem that Anna 4, the widow of David Jones, may have outlived her sister-in-law Elizabeth Jones as well as her own daughters Frances 5 and Averilla 5 Todd, who had contingent interests in the dwelling plantation Cole's Harbor should they outlive Anna 4 (see David Jones's will ante 24; 436).
Upon the death of Anna 4, probably about the year 1695, her son James 5 Todd, her only male heir in the Province, probably without opposition from his eldest brother Thomas 5 of Virginia, and with the consent of Anna's 4 third husband Capt. John Oldton, who was himself an extensive landholder and without children, and also probably fortified by the "authority of his mother under some contract," took possession of Cole's Harbor and Monteney's Neck. ...
