Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Margaret his wife acknowledge the aforesaid Goddard, Edward Cornwallis, Michael Samuel Jr, Phillipa Margaret and Julianna Charlotte to be their children lawfully begotten. And this deponent further says that he has frequently heard the said Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Margaret his wife talk of their rich relatives in Europe naming the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Ashley Coopers family, and this deponent furthermore declares that the said Michael DeBruhl departed this life in the year 1773 that he the deponent sat up along with some of his neighbors with the corpse of the deceased and the next day attended the same to Christ Church Newbern and saw the body interred in the burial ground of that church according to the usual order of Free Masons, and this deponent also further declares that at different times he has heard the said Michael Samuel senior say that he had been in the Life Guards (Third Troop Royal Horse Guards)of his late Majesty George the second and was under half pay, and that in the year 1749 he came over one of the first settlers to Halifax, Nova Scotia along with General Cornwallis, and further this deponent sayeth not.
Richard Treglith
Sworn to before me at Newbern in the County and
State aforesaid the day and year just written, given
Under my hand and seal May 16 1794
F Lowthorp JP
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