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 Mary Moody otherwise Mary Pike late of Sutton Veny in the County of Wilts but now of Chilton Saint Mary in the same County Widow First I will that all my just Debts and Funeral and Testamentary Expences shall be paid and satisfied and subject to the payment and satisfaction thereof I give devise and bequeath unto my Grandson John Grant of Chilton Saint Mary aforesaid Miller All my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments share or shares of Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Monies Securities for money goods chattels real and personal estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever which I have or am in any wise entitled unto To hold unto the said John Grant his heirs executors admors and assigns for ever or for such Estate Term and Interest which I have therein to and for his and their own proper use and benefit ??? I make nominate and appoint my said Grandson John Grant Executor of this my Will In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty The Mark and Seal of LS Mary Moody otherwise Mary Pike Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Testatrix Mary Moody otherwise Mary Pike as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of each other have hereto set our names as Witnesses the same having been first read over to and fully understood by her John Hinton JOb Grant Jn T Thring Proved at London 6th February 1821 before the Judge by the Oath of John Grant the sole Executor to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn (by Comon) duly to admr
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