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.
This is the last Will and Testament of me James Pike of Saint Nicholas Deptford in the County of Kent House Carpenter First I give and devise all my Freehold Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever unto my Son James Pike and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever Also I give and bequeath unto my said Son all my Leasehold Houses Lands and Premises And all my Goods Chattels and Personal Estate whatsoever And I do hereby declare my mind and will to be that in case my said Son James Pike shall happen to depart this life before he shall attain the age of twenty one years and without leaving lawful Issue of his body then and in such case from and after the decease of my said Son James Pike I give devise and bequeath all my Freehold Messuages Lands and all my Leasehold Houses Lands and Premises Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever and all my Goods Chattles and Personal Estate whatsoever unto my sister Ann Chamberlain her Heirs and Assigns for ever And I do hereby further declare my mind and will to be that my Executors hereinafter named shall and may by and out of my Personal Estate allow my said Son James Pike a fit and proper Sum for his maintenance and support as to my Executors or the Survivor of them shal seem expedient And I do hereby appoint my good Friends Robert Edmonds the Younger of New Cross in Surry Gardener and Anthony Smith of Saint Nicholas Deptford aforesaid Shopkeeper Executors of this my will and Guardians of my said Son James Pike until he shall attain his age of twenty one years hereby revoking all other wills by me at any time heretofore made In Witness whereof thereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four Jas Pike LS Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named James Pike as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request And in the Presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses John Mason Wm Trueman John Rich This Will was proved at London the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four before the Worshipful James Henry Arnold Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully lawfully contituted by the Oaths of Robert Edmonds the younger and Anthony Smith the Executors named in the said Will of the deceased to whom whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer
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