In an undated petition, orator Augustine Bailey administrator de bonis non of John Westmore complained that in 1814 Eliza Gordon mother of the said John Westmore died leaving a last will and testament and leaving three children William B. Westmore, John Westmore and Thomas C. Gordon her only children. In 1815 John Westmore died intestate leaving one daughter Elizabeth Ann his only child an infant of very tender years who in 1831 (while still under 21) married your orator. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 48, item 48-F-27.]