Folded parchment sheet with pendant seal. In clerk's hand. Signed "Wm Blaikstone, Res[?]" Copy of probated Will and codicils of Walter Hawkes, late a Major in the 2nd Regiment of Native Infantry on the Bengal Establishment of the East India Company. Embedded in an account of the actions of the Court after Hawkes' death.

Created by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Bengal. Date of probate was May 23, 1810; exemplified on July 6, 1810.

Individuals named in the document include heirs (1804): wife Sarah Hawkes; nephew Walter Cracroft; Miss Sarah Groves (later Sarah Boys). Executors: wife; brother Joseph Hawkes Esq; wife's brother Lt. John Harriott. Witnesses: Henry Peter Stacy (Chaplain Danapoor); Chr Gale (Capt Artillery). Wishes his wife to provide for his dear son-in-law John Stuart Rotton.

Heirs (codicil at Barrackpore Sep 13, 1808 after brother's death): omits brother and nephew; adds sister Jane Hawkes. Witnesses: J. McKillop, R. Lawson, R. Downie at Calcutta. Executors: wife; Francis Molyneux Ommanney, Esq, of London; Capt John Harriott of Bengal. Apologising for paucity of estate. If wife dies at same time, heirs to be mother; brother Joshua Hawkes; sister Jane Hawkes; Rotton; sister Mss Elizabeth Cracroft.

Edward Strachey of Moorshedabad, representing the Court, has appointed John Staples Harriott executor.