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 Pike of West Malling in the County of Kent Widow made published and declared this first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine first I Give and devise all my Freehold Land situate lying and being at Robertsbridge in the Parish of Salehurst in the County of Sussex called or known by the name of names of Longfield Hop Garden or Longfield or by whatsoever other name or names the same is called or known now in the tenure or occupation of Charles Woods his assigns or understenants with the appurts unto my youngest Son Dean Raynor Pike his Heirs Executors admors and assigns for ever also I Give devise and bequeath unto my Eldest Son George Pike of Chartham in the said County of Kent and to the aforesaid Dean Raynor Pike their Heirs Executors admors and assigns for ever all the rest residue and remainder of my Real and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever which I shall die possessed of to be equally divided between or amongst them share and share alike as Tenants in common and not as joint tenants Subject to the payment of my just Debts Funeral Expences and the Charges of Proving this my last Will and testament and I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me at any time made and declare this only to be my last Will and testamtnt And I do hereby appoint the said Dean Raynor Pike and the said George Pike joint Executors of this my will In Witness whereof I the said Mary Pike the Testatrix have to this my last Will and testament contained in one sheet of paper set my hand and seal the day and year first above written Mary Pike LS Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Mary Pike the Testatrix as and for her last Will and testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto the several erasures Interlineations and obliterations being first made and written Willm Twort Wm Goodlingh Chas Peto This Will as proved at London the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five before the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of George Pike the Son of the deceased and one of the Executors named in the said Will to whom admon was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer (power reserved of making the like Grant to Dean Raynor Pike the Son also of the said deceased and the other Executor named in the said when he shall apply for the same
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