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 James Pyke of Upper Moorfields in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex Silk Dyer being of sound and disposing Mind and Memory do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I recommend my Soul into the Hands of God Almighty and hope for Salvation through the Merits of my blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ And as to my temporal Estate I dispose thereof as follows that is to say I name constitute and appoint my loveing Sister Mary Cooper the Wife of William Cooper of Newgate Street London Weaver sole Executrix of this my Will And I give to my loveing Sister Elizabeth Norton Wife of Thomas Norton of Welford in Northamptonshire Husbandman the Sum of fifty Pounds to be paid to her within twelve Months next after my decease upon her own single and separate Receipt which shall be a sufficient discharge to my said Executrix for the same notwithstanding her Coverture Also I give to the said William Cooper and my said Executrix his Wife the Sum of one hundred pounds In Trust to lay out and invest the same in their joint Names in the purchase of some of the publick Funds or Government Secu- -rities And to transferr and Assign the Capital therof to my Nephew Thomas Pyke one of the sons of my late Brother William Pyke at his Age of twenty one Years And in the mean time to pay or apply the Interest and Dividends thereof towards his Maintenance and Education Also I give to my Nephews and Neices James Pyke John Pyke Elizabeth Pyke and Mary Watson (the Wife of Watson Baker) other children of my said late Brother William Pyke the sum of fifty pounds each to be paid to them respectively within twelve Months next after my Decease Also I give to my Nephew William Pyke (another son of my said late Brother William Pyke) and to Sarah his Wife the Sum of five pounds each for Mourning Also I give to Mr James Kedwell and Catherine his Wife and to my Servants Edmund Lee and Alexander Caldecott one Guinea each for a Ring And I Give and Bequeath all the Rest and Residue of my Estate and Effects of what Nature or kind soever and wheresoever (after payment of all my just Debts and Funeral Expences) unto my said Sister and Executrix Mary Cooper her Executors Administrators and Assigns to and for her and their own proper Use and Benefit for ever not doubting but that She my said Sister Mary and her said Husband will leave or give some part thereof after their deaths (in case thir son James shall happen to dye before them) to my said Sister Elizabeth Norton or her Family and to all or some of my other Relations herein named which however I leave entirely to my said Sister Mary and her said Husbands own discretion I revoke all former Wills and Testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made And In Testimony that this is my last Will and Testament I have hereunto set my Hand and seal this eighteenth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty James Pyke Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator James Pyke as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of John Parry Thos Upton This Will was proved at London the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty one before the Worshipfull Robert Chapman Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the right Worshipfull John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Mary Cooper (Wife of William Cooper) the sole Executrix in the said Will named to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods chattels and Credits of the said Deceased being first sworn duly to administer On the twenty eighth day of June 1766 admon (with the will annexed) of the Goods Chattels and Credits of James Pyke late of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex deceased left unadmrd by Mary Cooper (Wife of William Cooper) the sole Executrix and residuary legatee named in the said Will now also deceased was granted to James Cooper the natural and lawful son only next of kin and administrator of the Goods of the said Mary Cooper deceased he having been first sworn duly to administer
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