This is the will of John Blake, husband of Mary Blake (will blogged yesterday)
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
and son of Captain John Blake of the Honourable East India Company (still have not found further information on this man), and father of Arabella Blake, spinster, whose will was blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
The testator is possibly the John Blake baptized 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney and son of John Blake and possibly Mary Daberon. The supposition for this is the published registers for Westminster Abbey where a note attached to the marriage of John Blake and Mary Tymewell mentions that he was the son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife and born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713. He is then mentioned as living on Parliament Street, Westminster in his latter life. Limehouse is in the Tower Hamlets. St Dunstan Stepney is also in the Tower Hamlets.
By way of determining which John Blake is the father of the testator there is one clue in the will. He mentions the children of his nephew Blake Bradby namely James Bradby and the wife of Blake Bradby, Elizabeth Sophia. Possibly he has a sister married to unknown Bradly.
The will of John Bradby Blake is to come next and this is the brother of Arabella and son of the present testator.
I shall try to have a further look at the Honourable East India Company another time.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1189/132
Testator: John Blake, Esquier
Place: Saint Margaret Westminster, Middlesex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 6 Mar 1781, probated 9 Mar 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esquire
1 I John Blake of Parliament
2 Street in the parish of St Margaret Westminster in the
3 County of Middlesex Esq[uie]r being of sound Mind Memory
4 and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament
5 in manner following that is to say I will and direct that
6 my Funeral Expences and all my just debts be discharged
7 paid and subject thereto I give and dispose of my Estate
8 and Effects as follows I give unto my daughter Sally
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9 Hitchin Pelly wife of Henry Hinde Pelly of Upton in the
10 County of Essex Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of two Thousand
11 pounds old South Sea annuities I give unto my daughter
12 Arabella Blake the like Capital Sum of two Thousand pounds
13 Old South Sea Annuities I give unto my daughter Mary
14 Tymewell Blake the like Capital sum of two Thousand
15 pounds Old South Sea Anuities and my Will is that the
16 said several Capital Sums of Old South Sea Annuities
17 shall be transferred to my said daughters by my Executrix
18 hereinafter named within three Calendar Months next
19 after my death but in case I shall not be possessed of
20 old South Sea Annuities sufficient to answer the said Legacies
21 Then I will and direct that my said Executrix shall by
22 and out of my personal Estate buy so much Old South
23 Sea Annuities as will make up the deficiency I give to
24 my Wife Mary Blake and the said Henry Hinde Pelly
25 the Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three per
26 cent Bank Annuities reduced upon Trust they they or
27 the Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators
28 of such Survivor shall transfer assign and pay the
29 same and the Interest and dividends thereof that shall
30 not be applied for the purposes hereafter mentioned
31 unto my adopted Grandson John Joseph Blake now
32 living with me and reputed to be the Son of John
33 Bradby Blake (late a Supra Cargo at Canton in
34 China deceased) by Maria de Nosorio of Macao
35 when and if he shall live to attain his age of twenty one
36 years which will be on the seventh day of January
37 1795 but in case of his death before that age then
38 I will that the said one thousand pounds three per
39 cent Bank annuities reduced or so much thereof as
40 they shall think proper for and towards the Maintenance
41 and Education of my said adopted Grandson I give to
42 James Bradby now an Infant Son of my Nephew
43 Blake Bradby deceased the Sum of one hundred pounds
44 the same to be paid by my Executrix hereafter named
45 to Elizabeth Sophia Bradby Mother of the said Infant
46 to be applied by her for the benefit of the said Child at
47 her discretion I give to Mr John Hogarth Apothecary
48 of Vigro Lane in the parish of Saint James Fifty pounds
49 or a Ring as a Mark of Family Friendship I give to
50 Mr Bateman Robson of Lincolns Inn twenty five pounds
51 and to Mr Christopher Morris of the same place the
52 like Sum of twenty five pounds I give to the Treasurer
53 of Greenwich hospital for the time being the Sum of
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54 twenty five pounds to be applied to the Fund for the benefit
55 of the Seamen in that hospital All the Rest Residue and
56 Remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and
57 wheresoever whether Real or personal I give devise and
58 bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my
60 said wife Mary Blake her heirs Executors Administrators
61 and Assigns to and for her and their own use and
62 benefit absolutely for ever and I do hereby constitute
63 and appoint my said wife sole Executrix of this my
64 last Will and Testament hereby revoking and declaring
65 void all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at
66 any time heretofore made and do declare this only to be
67 my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I
68 have to this my said last Will and Testament (all of
69 my own handwriting) set my hand and Seal this sixth
70 day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand
71 seven hundred and eighty one J Blake Signed
72 Sealed published and declared by the said Testator John
73 Blake (after the word “pounds” being interlined in the
74 fifteenth Line as and for his last Will and Testament in
75 in the presence of us who in his presence and in the
76 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed out
77 Names as Witnesses Samuel Stratt John Croft Edw[ar]d
78 Parratt
79 This Will was proved at London on the
80 ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one
81 thousand seven hundred and ninety before the worshipful
82 John Michell doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right
83 honourable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of
84 Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
85 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath
86 of Mary Blake Widow the Relict of the deceased and
87 sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Admon
88 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
89 and Credits of the said deceased she having been
90 first sworn duly to administer
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