Margaret DeBruhl at Georgetown in 1783

State of South Carolina
Georgetown District

Before me Erasmus Rothmakler one of the Justices assigned for said District.
Personally appeared Mrs. Esther Fripin widow residing and living in Georgetown in the district and state aforesaid who being by me duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God maketh
oath and saith that she became acquainted with Ms. Margaret DeBruhl some time as she thinks in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight and was well and intimately acquainted with her the said Margaret DeBruhl having spent a week at a time at the house of this deponent that was any a number of other circumstances relative to the life of this aforesaid Mrs. Margaret DeBruhl told by her to this deponent and not now to be recollected. She remembers to have been told by her that she was of the Noble Family of the Ashley Coopers and that the rivers Ashley and Cooper in the State of South Carolina had taken their names from the family of one of the family from which she was descended. That she said Mrs Margaret DeBruhl to the best of this deponent remembrances also told this deponent that her husband Michael Samuel DeBruhl not then alive to this deponents knowledge or belief was also descended from a Noble Family, that she has heard her say Mr. DeBruhl in his lifetime acknowledged Goddard DeBruhl and Julianna Charlotte DeBruhl as her children, and also heard her speak of other children whose name she cannot now recollect. This deponent also remembers that the aforesaid Mrs. Margaret DeBruhl died at George Town some time in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four. (1784)

Signed: Esther Fripin
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me at George Town
This Second day of June 1794

Erasmus Rothmakler