Edward Blake, the testator, is married to Jane (unknown). I could not find any further information on this Edward Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 3 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1107
Name of testator: Edward Blake
Place: of the Ship Deptford belonging to the honorable the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 7 Jun 1781, probated 24 Sep 1783
[In margin] Edward Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Edward Blake of the Ship Deptford belonging to the
3 honble the United Company of Merchants trading to the
4 East Indies being in perfect health of Body but calling
5 into Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that
6 all Men once must die do make and ordain this my last
7 Will and Testament that is to say I Give and recommend
8 my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it
9 and my Body I recommend to this Earth or Sea as it
10 shall please God to ordain it nothing doubting but at
11 the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again
12 by the mighty power of God and as touching such
13 Worldly Estate it has pleased God to bless me with
14 in this life I give devise and dispose to the same
15 in the following form I Give to Mr Gaving Young
16 of the parish of Saint Helier in the County of
17 Middlesex Gentleman whom I likewise constitute make
18 and ordain the sole Executor of this my last Will
19 and Testament all wages that may be due to me on
20 board the said Ship or any other that I may be on
21 board of In Witness whereof I have this day I have
22 set my hand this 7 day of June in the year of our
23 Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one
24 and in the twenty first year of the Reign of our
25 Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain etc in
26 Witness Richard Mitchell Henry Wright
27 The condition of the above Will is that the said
28 Mr Gaving Young do pay unto my dearly beloved Wife
29 Jane Blake eight shilling per week or else to be void
30 and of us _____
31 This Will was proven at London the twenty
32 fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one
33 thousand seven hundred and eighty three before the
34 Worshipful Andrew Coltee Ducarel doctor of Laws Surrogate
35 of the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert also doctor of Laws
36 Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative court of
37 Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Gavin otherwise
38 Gaving Young Esquire the sole Executor named in the said
39 Will to whom administration was granted of all and singular
40 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having been
41 first sworn duly to administer
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