Susanna Blake (formerly Moore) is the testatrix of the will below. She is married to John Blake and they live at Gusage All Saints, Dorset. According to the will below, Susanna Moore married John Blake after 21 Jan 1752 as a pre-nuptial agreement was signed on that date. They do not appear to have had any children; I did not find any Blake surnames searching on the Gussage All Saints OPC website where there are baptisms from 1701 to 1812. Nor are their burials listed on this website.
However I did find the burial of Susanna Blake on the Gussage St Michael OPC website. Susanna was 61 years of age and buried 2 Aug 1760. Her husband John Blake also aged 61 years was buried 31 Jan 1761 was also buried at Gussage St Michael. Obviously this couple was older when they married. They are the only Blake burials registered there between 1654 and 1812.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Sep 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/870/183
Testator: Susanna Blake heretofore Moore, Wife
Place: Gussage All Saints, Dorset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Jul 1760, probated 10 Nov 1761
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Susanna Blake
[Margin]: heretofore Moore
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Susanna Blake Wife of John Blake of Gussage All
3 Saints in the County of Dorsett Malster doe make my last Will
4 and Testament in manner and form following Whereas in and by
5 a certain Indenture Tripartite bearing date on or about the twenty
6 first day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty two
7 made between myself by my then Name of Susanna Moore
8 of the first part Henry Edwards and Richard Dean of the second
9 part and the said John Blake my present husband of the third
10 part made previous to and in order to my Marriage with the said
11 John Blake two several Bonds or Obligations from Robert Bowles
12 Esquire and the Honourable and Reverend Thomas Howe for the
13 payment of one hundred pounds cash are thereby assigned to the
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14 said Henry Edwards and Richard Dean their Executors administrators
15 and Assigns in manner therein expressed Upon Trust (amongst
16 other things) that in Case I should dye in the life time of the said
17 John Blake that they the said Henry Edwards and Richard Dean
18 should Transfer pay and dispose of the said one hundred pounds
19 and one hundred pounds and the interest and produce thereof to
20 such person or persons and in such sort manner and proportions
21 as I notwithstanding my Coverture should by any deed or deeds
22 in Writing or by my last Will and Testament in Writing or by
23 any Writing purporting to be my last Will and Testament under
24 my hand and Seal Executed in the presence of two or more creditable
25 Witnesses direct limit and appoint as in and By the said in part
26 recited Indenture relation being therein to had it doth and may
27 more fully and at large appear And Whereas the said one
28 hundred pounds due from the said Robert Bowles was in or about
29 the Month of April one thousand seven hundred and fifty six
30 paid into the said Henry Edwards and Richard Dean and on
31 the first day of May following was by them lent and placed out
32 at interest to my said husband upon his bond of that date by and
33 with my Consent and approbation upon the Trusts and to and for
34 the uses intents and purposes mentioned and contained in the said
35 Tridenture Tripartite and the other one hundred pounds still
36 remains due and owing from the said Thomas Howe Now in
37 testimony of the love and Affection which I have and bear towards
38 the said John Blake my husband and by Virtue of the power and
39 authority to me reserved and given in and by the said in part
40 recited Indenture and of all other powers and Authorities any wise
41 enabling me thereunto I the said Susanna Blake do by this my
42 last Will and Testament or Writing purporting my last Will
43 and Testament by me under my hand and Seal published and
44 declared in the presence of John Young and James Flipping whose
45 names are hereunder written as Witnesses hereto Give bequeath
46 direct limit and appoint the said two several Sums of one hundred
47 pounds and one hundred pounds and the interest thereof unto my
48 said husband for and during the term of his natural life and I hereby
49 direct the said Henry Edwards and Richard Dean to pay him the
50 interest of the said one hundred pounds due from the said Thomas
51 Howe accordingly or permit him to receive the same and from and
52 after the decease of my said husband I Give and bequeath the said
53 two several Sums of one hundred pounds and one hundred pounds
54 (or such part thereof as shall be left and in being at the time
55 of his death as hereinafter is mentioned) together with the Securities
56 for the same unto my Nephew Francis Russell of Magdalen
57 College Cambridge Son of my late Sister Rebecca Russell his
58 Executor and Administrators but it is my express Will desire and
59 meaning that if by sickness or other infirmities my said husband
60 shall in the opinion of the said Henry Edwards and Richard Dean
61 have need or occasion of all or any part of the said principal
62 sums of one hundred pounds and one hundred pounds then I do
63 hereby order and direct that the said Trustees shall and do
64 permit him to receive have and take the same (notwithstanding
65 the above bequest to the said Francis Russell) to and for his
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66 own use and that they the said Trustees shall not be any ways
67 liable answerable or accountable to the said Francis Russell
68 or any one else for the same and I do hereby acquit and
69 discharge them thereof it being my intention that the said Francis
70 Russell under this my Will shall have or be entitled to have or
71 receive no more of the said Several Sums of one hundred pounds
72 and one hundred pounds than my said husband shall leave
73 at his death In Witness whereof I the said Susanna Blake
74 have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and Seal
75 the sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
76 seven hundred and sixty Susanna Blake Signed Sealed and
77 published and declared by the said Susanna Blake the Testatrix
78 as and for her last Will and Testament and the words his Executors
79 and Administrators being first interlined in the presence of us who
80 at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other
81 have hereunto set and Subscribed our Names as Witnesses John
82 Young James Flipping
83 On the tenth day of November in the year of our Lord
84 one thousand seven hundred and sixty one Letters of Administration
85 (with the last Will and Testament annexed) of Susannah Blake
86 Heretofore Moore (Wife of John Blake) late of Gussage all
87 Saints in the County of Dorset deceased were granted to Francis
88 Russell the Nephew next of kin and Residuary Legatee substituted
89 in the said Will he having been first sworn duly to administer
90 for that there is no Executor named in the said Will and the
91 said John Blake the husband and Universal Legatee for life
92 named in the said Will Survived the Testatrix but died without
93 taking upon him Letters of Administration (with the said Will
94 annexed) of the Goods of the said deceased.
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