Also, if you are a male Pike/Pyke (or you know one) who may be willing to do a genealogical DNA test, then please check out the Pike DNA Project for which I am a volunteer coordinator. There are several Pike/Pyke families that are not yet represented in the project, and for whom participants are wanted.
In the Name of God Amen I Abraham Pike belonging to his Majestys Ship Northumberland being in Bodily health and of Sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the Perils and Dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this Transitory life (Do for Avoiding controversies after my decease) make Publish and Declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to day) FirstI recommend my Soul to God that Gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it Shall please God to Order and as for and concerning all my Worldly Estate I Give Bequeath and Dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all such Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time of my Decease I do Give Devise and bequeath the same unto my Friend John Serel of the Parish of Rime and County of Cornwall And I do hereby Nominate and Appoint the said John Serel of the Parish and County aforesaid to be the Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills and Testaments and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore made And I do Ordain and Ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the Eighteenth day of January In the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Fifty Six And in the Twenty ninth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Second over Great Britain &c Abraham Pike Signed Sealed Published and Declared in the Presence of us Colville Wm Searl This Will was proved at London before the Right Worshipfull Edward Simpson Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted on the thirteenth Day of May In the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Sixty by the Oath of John Sewl the Sole Executor named in the said Will to whom Administration was Granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased he having been first Sworn by Commission duly to Administer
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