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 Thomas Pike now Carpenter of His Majesty's Frigate Melampus being in good health of Body and of sound and disposing Mind Memory and Understanding, praised be God for the same and considering the dangers and uncertainty of this Transitory Life Do make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) First and Principally I commend my Soul to Almighty God my Creator hoping through his Mercy and the Merits of my blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ to have Remission of all my Sins and to inherit Everlasting life And my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall Please God to order And as to all such Worldly Estate wherewith at my death it may please God to bless me I dispose thereof as follows First I will and direct all my just Debts to be paid off and discharged by my Executrix herein after named as soon as may be after my death And all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate Goods Chattels Money Securities for Money Rights Credits Personal and Testamentary Estate and Effects of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever which I shall die possessed of interested in or any way intitled unto I do hereby give devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my dear Wife Ann Pike to and for her own use and benefit and Lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Wife Ann Pike the sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all former and other Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made and declaring this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribed and set my Hand and Seal this second day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety Thos Pike LS Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Thomas Pike as and for his last Will & Testament in the presence of us who at his request have Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto Sarah Thomas Mary Thomas This Will was proved at London the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred before the Right Honorable Sir William Wyne Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Ann Pike Widow the Relict of the Deceased the Sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer
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