Random searching does not bring up any information on this Blake family at Staple Fitzpaine and Okeford Fitzpaine. Staple Fitzpaine is just 3 miles from Pitminster. From the gist of the will it looks like two Blake families have married with the sister of the testator Mary marrying a John Blake. I did not find any new information on this Reverend John Blake at Staple Fitzpaine.
Parish Records for Okeford Fitzpaine from the OPC Dorset webpage
Burials:
Elizabeth Blake buried 1772 28 years
Mary Blake buried 30 May 1793
John Blake buried 22 Jun 1794
No Blake records for baptisms or marriages and no Blake on the 1841 census at Okeford Fitzpaine.
There is a baptism for Eleanor Blake, daughter of John and Mary Blake on Family Search 21 Apr 1749 at Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset which is 4 miles from Okeford Fitzpaine. OPC Dorset webpage does not have any further information.
Hazelbury Bryan is in the area just west of the Winterborne Valley and Blandford Forum but I do not think he is related to the Malachi Blake family at Blandford.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9bOct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1097/205
Testator: Reverend John Blake
Place: Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 9 Nov 1781, probated 15 Nov 1782
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: The Reverend
[Margin]: John Blake
[Margin]: Clerk
1 I John Blake
2 of Staple Fitzpaine in the County of Somerset Clerk do make
3 public and declare this to be my last Will and Testament as
4 follows I give unto my Sister Mary Blake Fifty pounds I
5 also give unto her husband John Blake one Guinea
6 I also give unto each of their Children Eleanor excepted who
7 shall be living at the time of my decease one Guinea I also
8 give unto Betty Dean if she shall be living with me at the
9 time of my decease Five Guineas all the rest and residue
10 of my Goods Chattels Rights Credits and personal Estate
11 of what Nature or kind soever I give and bequeath unto
12 my Niece Eleanor Blake except my manuscript sermons
13 all which manuscript sermons I do hereby strictly charge and
14 commend to be burnt as soon as possible after I am dead
15 and lastly I do hereby appoint my said Niece Eleanor
16 Blake Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
17 in Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and
18 Testament set my hand and Seal this ninth day of
19 November one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty one
20 John Blake
21 Appeared personally John Blake of
22 of Ockford Fitzpaine Clothier in the County of Dorset and
23 John North Jun[io]r yeoman of Staple Fitzpaine in the
24 County of Somersetshire and being sworn on the holy
25 Evangelists severally made oath that they knew and were
26 well acquainted with the Rev John Blake late of Staple
27 Fitzpaine in the County of Somerset Clerk deceased for
28 some
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29 some time before his death and also with his Manner and
30 character of Hand Writing have often seen him write and
31 write and subscribe his Name and having now viewed and perused
32 the Paper Writing hereunto annexed purporting to be the last
33 Will and Testament of the said deceased beginning thus “ I John
34 Blake of Staple Fitzpaine in the County of Somerset do make
35 public and declare this to be my last Will and Testament” and
36 ending thus “In Witness whereof I have to this my lst Will
37 and Testament set my hand and Seal this ninth day of November
38 one Thousand seven hundred eighty one” and thus subscribed
39 “John Blake” they these deponents jointly and severally depose
40 and say that they verily and in their consciences believe
41 that the whole copies and presents of the said Will beginning and
42 ending as aforesaid and also the Name John Blake thereto
43 subscribed to be all of the proper handwriting and subscription
44 of the said John Blake deceased John North Jun[io]r John Blake
45 on the Fifth day of October 1782 the said John Blake and
46 John North were duly sworn to the Truth of this Affidavit
47 before me Thomas Alford Commissioner
48 This Will was proved at London the Fifteenth
49 day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand
50 seven hundred and Eighty two before the Right
51 Worshipful Peter Calvert doctor of Laws Master keeper
52 or Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
53 lawfully constituted by the Oath of Eleanor Blake Spinster
54 the Niece of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the
55 said Will to whom administration was granted of all and
56 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased
57 having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer.
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