Sworn to and witnessed
Before me Thursday 1st day of May 1794
John Dozer JP
State of South Carolina
George Town District
Before me Erasmus Rothmahler of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in the District aforesaid. Personally came and appeared Robert Grant of George Town in the district and State aforesaid practicing physician who being by me duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God maketh oath and saith that he became acquainted with Mrs. Margaret DeBruhl some time
in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty four who at that time resided in George Town at the house of W. Godard DeBruhl by whom she was received and treated as a Parent and whom she acknowledged and owned as her son, that he often saw Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Julianna
Charlotte DeBruhl in company with the aforementioned Mrs. Margaret DeBruhl by whom they were acknowledged and treated as children and to whom they paid the respect and attention due from children. This deponent upon his oath further says that the before named Mrs Margaret DeBruhl sickened at George Town at the house of the before mentioned Goddard DeBruhl sometime in the year aforesaid and lay for a considerable time ill, during which time this Deponent frequently visited her as a friend and to the best of this deponents recollection she died sometime in the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, that he attended her funeral and saw her interred in the church yard of the Episcopal Church of Prince George Winyah in George Town aforesaid.
Bob Grant
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Before me this second day of June 1794
Erasmus Rothmakler
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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