Source: TNA, PROB 11/760
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 John Pyke late belonging to the Winchelsea Privateer Mariner being of Sound and disposing mind and Memory do hereby make this my last Will and Testament first and Principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for Remission of all my Sins through the Meritts of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer and my Body to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God and as for such Worldly Estate and Effects which I shall be possessed of or intituled unto at the time of my decease I give and bequeath the same as followeth that is to say unto my Kinsman Stephen Pyke of Sheffield Street in the parish of Saint Clement James in the County of Middlesex Grocer I give and bequeath all moneys that are or hereafter may become due and owing from the owners and Managers of the said Ship Winchelsea and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Stephen Pyke Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do give and bequeath unto my said Executor all the rest and residue of my Estate whatsoever both real and personal hereby revoking and making void all other and former Wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty seven and in the Twenty first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith John Pyke Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto Subscribed our names as Witnesses in the presence of the said Testator Wm Morgan Lewis Way This Will was proved at London before the Worshipfull Robert Chapman Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully Constituted on the second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty seven by the Oath of Stephen Pyke the Sole Executor named in the said Will to whom adminstration was granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattells and Creditts of the said deceased being first Sworn duly to administer
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