Michael Blake does not have any indication in his will of his Blake family.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 10 May 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/896
Name of testator: Michael Blake
Place: now belonging to his Majestys Ship Vanguard
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 13 Dec 1763, probated 1 Mar 1764
[In margin]: Michael Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Michael Blake Seaman belonging to his Majestys Ship Vanguard
3 being sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks
4 be to God calling into mind the Mortality of my Body and
5 knowing that tis appointed for all Men sure to die do make constitute
6 and ordain and publish this to stand and be for and as my last
7 Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I
8 recommend my Soul to the Great God that gave it and my Body
9 I recommend to either Earth or Sea as it shall please God to
10 order and as for and concerning all my Worldly Estate I do
11 give bequeath and dispose thereof in manner following first I
12 do give unto my beloved Friend Michael Sullivan all my wages
13 and pay bounty Money Smart Money prize Money and all other
11 Sum or Sums of Money whatsoever as now are and which
15 hereafter shall or may be due or payable unto me also such
16 pensions Salary Wages or all other Money and Things
17 whatsoever which now are or at any time hereafter shall or
18 may be due to me for my Service or otherwise in any one
19 of his Majestys Ship or Ships Frigates or vessels giving and
20 hereby granting unto the aforesaid Michael Syllivan my only
21 lawful Executor all my other Effects and Moveables as to me
22 belongeth and I do hereby constitute and appoint him the
23 sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do
24 hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other
25 Testaments Wills Legacies Bequests and Executors by me in any
26 ways before named willed or bequeathed ratifying and confirming this to
27 stand and be for and as my last Will and Testament In Witness
28 whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the thirteenth day
29 of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
30 and Sixty three and in the fourth year of his Majestys Reign
31 King George the Third over Great Britain France and Ireland
32 defender of the Faith and so forth Michael Blake X his Mark
33 Signed sealed and published where no Stamps paper could be
34 had in the presence of us John Veysey snd Lieut Michl Burke
35 William Nicholson
36 This Will was proved at London before the Right
37 Worshipful Sir Edward Simpson Knight doctor of Laws Master
38 Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
39 lawfully constituted on the first day of March in the Year of Our
40 Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty four by the Oath
41 of Michael Sullivan the sole Executor named in the said
42 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular
43 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased he having been
44 first sworn by Commission duly to administer
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