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 Foot Pike now Commander of his Majestyes Sloop the Shark being in bodily Health and of sound and disposing Mind and Memory and considering the perills and dangers of the seas and other Uncertaintyes 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 say First I 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 a House at St Mary Cray in the County of Kent called by the Name of Spring Hall also a House in Black Fyars near the Gate now in the Occupation of Mr Clark Clock and Watchmaker and also all such Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattles 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 beloved Wife Ann Pike And I do hereby nominate and appoint my said Wife sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore made And I do ordain and ratifie these present 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 eleventh day of December Anno Dni 1728 and in the second year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the second over Great Brittain &c Foot Pike Signed sealed and published in the presence of us Tho Watson Martha Delafaye Thomas Miller Probatum fuit [this paragraph continues in Latin to grant probate on 18 January 1730] decimo octavo Die Mensis Januarii Anno Domini Millesimo septingentesimo tricesimo [to] Annae Pike vidua Relicta et Executricis [Another paragraph follows in Latin, dated 31 May 1731] Tricesimo primo Die Mensis Maii Anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo tricesimo primo Emanavit Commissio Borlace Pike Filio et Administratori Bonorum Annae Pike vidua defunctae dum vixit Relicta Executricis ???? et Legatoria Universalis nominata in Testamento Foot Pike nuper parochia Santa Maria Cray in Comitate Cantii et ad Naveni Regiam le Shark Sloop ...
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