No ideas on this family. I did find Ezekiel Blake in Hemel Hempstead with his wife and a son Ezekiel being baptized. Is this family from Devon where the name Ezekiel Blake is also found? As more of the Buckinghamshire wills are transcribed I might have further information on this family.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 22 Apr 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1331/172
Testator: James Blake the Elder, Shoemaker
Place: Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 3 Aug 1799, probated 19 Oct 1799
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: James
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: the Elder
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me James Blake the Elder of
3 Chenies in the County of Bucks Shoemaker First I
4 give unto my dear wife Sarah Blake all my household
5 Goods Furniture plate Linnen China Books and all
6 other Goods and Furniture of every description whatsoever
7 that I may die possessed of for her own use and
8 benefit during the term of her natural life except my
9 wearing apparel which I give at my decease unto
10 James Blake the younger my Nephew of Chenies
11 aforesaid Shoemaker and from and after the decease
12 of my said Wife I give unto my Niece Maria Blake
13 of Chenies aforesaid all the before mentioned household
14 Furniture Goods Furniture plate Linnen China Books
15 and all other Goods and Furniture of every description
16 (except my wearing apparel before excepted and also
17 except the desk up Stairs and half my Books which
18 I give and bequeath at the decease of my said Wife
19 unto the said James Blake the younger aforesaid I
20 also give and bequeath unto my dear Wife Sarah
21 Blake aforesaid all the Interest of my Monies whether
22 upon Bonds or in the Stocks of the Bank of England
23 or elsewhere during the term of her natural life to
24 be received by her or her order at any time as they
25 become due after my decease and if my said Wife
26 requires of my hereinafter named Executors any
27 part or parts of my principal Money whether upon
28 Bonds or in the Stocks of the Bank of England or
30 elsewhere from which such Interest shall arise I
31 hereby authorize and commission my said Executors
32 to provide such a sufficiency for her better maintenance
33 as they shall think proper and from and after the
34 decease of my said Wife I give and bequeath the
35 following Legacies to be paid out of the property
36 which then remains within twelve Months next
37 after my said wifes decease to Ezekiel Blake my
38 Nephew of Hemel Hempstead in the County of Hertford
39 Shoemaker One hundred pounds to my Niece Elizabeth
40 Phillips (wife of Edward Phillips) Officer of Excise
41 One hundred pounds to my aforesaid Niece Maria
42 Blake of Chenies One hundred pounds to my Niece
43 Mary Putnam daughter of James Putnam of
44 Chesham in the county of Bucks aforesaid One
45 hundred pounds to Nathan Sharman of Chenies aforesaid
46 dissenting teacher ten pounds to Richard Wagstaff of
47 Watford in the said County of Hertford Shoemaker Forty
48 pounds to Lucy Mansell Widow of John Mansell deceased
49 now or late of College Street Southwark Ten pounds
50 but in case the said Lucy Mansell shall happen to
51 be dead at the time of my said Wife's decease or if
52 then living shall die before her Legacy of Ten pounds
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53 aforesaid shall become payable I then give the
54 last said Legacy of Ten pounds unto my aforesaid
55 Nephew James Blake and I hereby empower and
56 commission my said after named Executors as soon as
57 conveniently may be after the decease of my said
58 Wife to collect all my Monies whether upon Bonds
59 Notes of hand in the Stocks of the Bank of England
60 or elsewhere and dispose of it agreeable to this my
61 last Will and Testament and when the aforesaid
62 Legacies shall have been paid I give and bequeath
63 all the Remainder and Residue of my property
64 whatsoever and wheresoever unto my aforesaid
65 Nephew James Blake and my mind and will further
66 is that in case any or either of my said Nephews
67 or Nieces shall happen to die before his her or
68 their Legacy or Legacys become payable without
69 Issue then I direct that the share of such Nephew
70 or Niece Nephews or Nieces so dying be equally
71 divided between the Survivors of them share and share
72 alike and in case any or either of my said Nephews
73 or Nieces shall die before his her or their Legacy or
74 Legacies become payable as aforesaid leaving one or
75 more Child or Children then in that case my Mind
76 and Will is that such Child or Children shall be entitled
77 to their Father or Father's Mother or Mother's share
78 or shares as he she or they would have been
79 intitled to if living at the time of my said Wife's
80 decease And I do hereby nominate constitute and
81 appoint William Davis and my said Nephews James
82 Blake both of Chenies aforesaid Executors of this my
83 last Will and Testament and do direct that they my
84 said Executors and Trustees shall not be answerable
85 for any loss of damage that may happen in the
86 Execution of this Trust hereby in them reposed so that
87 the same be not through their or either of their
88 wilful neglects and that neither of them my said
89 Trustees shall be answerable to the one for the other of
90 them nor for the acts deeds Receipts or wilful neglects
91 of the other of them but each for his own acts,
92 deeds Receipts or wilful neglects only And I do direct
93 that my said Trustees shall reimburse themselves all
94 necessary Charges and Expences that they may be
95 put into in and about the Execution of the said
96 Trusts hereby in them reposed and I hereby revoke
97 make null and void all former and other Will or
98 Wills by me at any time or times heretofore made
99 And do declare this to be my last Will and Testament
100 only In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will
101 and Testament contained on three sheets of paper
102 to the two first sheets thereof set my hand and to
103 the last sheet thereof my hand and seal this twenty
104 third day of August in the Year of Our Lord One
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105 thousand seven hundred and ninety nine James
106 Blake S[enio]r Signed Sealed published and declared
107 by the said James Blake as and for his last Will
108 and Testament in the presence of us who in his
109 presence at his request and in the presence of each
110 other Witness the same observing the two words "said
111 Wife" interlined in the fourth line of the second page
112 before the Signing hereof Thos Dell Chenies Joseph
113 Baldwin Baker Chenies
114 This Will was proved at London the
115 nineteenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord
116 One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine before
117 the Worshipful William Territt Doctor of Laws
118 Surrogate of the Right honorable Sir William
119 Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
120 Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
121 lawfully Constituted by the Oaths of William Davis
122 and James Blake the Nephew of the deceased and
123 the Executors named in the said Will to whom
124 administration was granted of all and singular
125 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased
126 having been first sworn duly to administer
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