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Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vols Ser 2, vol 5 by LIndsay Duvall

Giles MODE died in either late Dec 1657 or Jan 1658, as his death by drowning was abstracted from a report in late Jan 1658 of a fellow drowning victim: "On 26 Jan 1657/58, a coroner's jury of York Co. made its report into the death of a body found on the shore with the mark T. B. on the shirt: "Mr. Thomas Baxter who was since drowned near the ship in York River and cast on shore by the tide, the cause supposed to be the oversetting of a small boat wherein he with Mr. Giles Mode and some others were cast overboard." (Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Ser 2, vol 5, Lindsay Duvall compiler, Wharton Grove, VA, 1961, p 19)

Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vols 25-27 by Beverly Fleet

Mar 12, 1657
p.19 We whose names are written below were by Col. Thomas Ludlow sworn to make inquiry into the manner & cause of the death of one found lying on the shoare near the River in Yorke parish, having accordingly visited the dead corpse with a mark on his shirt being T:B:, Mr. Thomas Baxter who was 3 months since drowned near the ship in York River and cast on shore by the tide, the cause of drowning we supposed to be (by report) by the oversetting of a small boat wherein he with Mr. Giles Mode & some others were cast overboard. 12 March 1657.
The Coroner’s Jury:
Thomas Beale foreman, Clothper Lucas, John Peteet Chyrurgion [Surgeon], Edward Dale, William C Spyner, William Reynolds, William Spence, Thomas Crouch, John I Shelley, William Pattison, William W. Walker, Hugh Roy, Rec. 12 Mar 1657.