Deposition regarding Michael Samuel DeBruhl 1794

State of North Carolina
Craven County:

Personally appeared before me Frances Lowthorp Esquire one of the Justices appointed to keep the peace in the County aforesaid Jarvis Buxton who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, Deposeth and sayeth that in the year 1773 he was then a house carpenter, clerk and sexton of Christ Church Newbern in the County aforesaid, that a certain Michael Samuel DeBruhl dying, he the deponent shrouded his body, made his coffin and attended his body to Christ Church Newbern aforesaid and saw it interred in the burial ground. and this deponent further declares that he was well acquainted with the deceased in his lifetime and knew him to follow the trade of a Goldchaser and Engraver, that he also knew two of his sons one named Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl and the other now present Michael Samuel DeBruhl Jr, and that they were both brought up to the same trade with their father, and this deponent had often heard the deceased say that he came out one of the first settlers to Halifax, Nova Scotia and that General Cornwallis with whom he came out had named the aforesaid Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl after himself and was one of his cousins and this deponent also knew the said deceased has two daughters Philipa Margaret and Julianna Charlotte, and thinks the deceased must formerly have been in the service of the Crown of Great Britain. He always wearing a Cocked Hat and Coccade, as further this deponent sayeth not. Jarvis Buxton

Sworn to before me at
Newbern this 16th day of
May 1794. Witness my hand and seal

Frances Lowthorp JP