James Blake, the testator does not give enough information in his will to locate him.
https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=6203
The sloop Ringdove was refitted at Chatham Dockyard in 1808. In 1813 it sailed for North America.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 25 Apr 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1540
Name of testator: James Blake, Boatswain
Place: on board his Majestys Ship Ringdove
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 9 May 1810, probated 7 Jan 1813
[In margin]: James Blake 4
1 In the Name of God Amen I James
2 Blake Boatswain of his Majestys Sloop Kingdove being of sound
3 and disposing mind and memory do hereby make this my last
4 Will and Testament First and principally I commend my Soul into
5 the hands of Almighty God hoping for remission of all my Sins
6 through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and redeemer
7 and my body to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God and as for
8 such Worldly Estate and effects which I shall be possessed of or
9 entitled unto at the time of my decease I bequeath the same
10 as followeth that is to say I bequeath unto My Friend Mr A
11 Cohan of No 73 Chatham in the County of Kent all such
12 wages Sum and Sums of money as now or hereafter may be
13 due to me for my Service or otherwise _____ the said Ship or
11 any other Ship or vessel and I do hereby nominate constitute
15 and appoint the said Mr A Cohan Executor of this my Will and
16 Testament And I do bequeath unto my said Executor all the
17 rest and residue of my Estate whatever both real and personal
18 hereby revoking and making void all other and former Wills by
19 me heretofore made and I do declare this to be my will and Testament
20 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the
21 Ninth day of May in the year of our Lord 1810 and in the Fifty first
22 year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace
23 of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King
24 defender of the faith etc. James Blake Signed and Sealed
25 published and declared by the said James Blake as said for his
26 last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto
27 subscribed our Names as Witnesses in the presence of the said
28 testator Wm Dowers Captain Peter Honnor Master Geo Green 1st
29 Lieutenant
30 Proved at London 7th Jan 1813 before the Judge by the Oath of
31 Arthur Cowan the sole Executor to whom Admon was granted being
32 first sworn by Commission duly to administer
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