Michael Samuel DeBruhl and Freemasonry

State of South Carolina
City of Charleston:
Before me Peter Freneau one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in the said State personally appeared Captain Jacob Milligan a native of the City of New York who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith that in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty five he was personally acquainted with a certain Michael Samuel DeBruhl who then lived in a house situated at the corner of New and Beaver Streets in the said City of New York and followed the Engraving and Gold Chasing business, that he was also acquainted with his wife Margaret DeBruhl and with three of their sons, and two of their daughters, Godard DeBruhl the eldest, Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl, the second and Michael Samuel DeBruhl the third son, Phillippa Margaret DeBruhl, Julianna Charlotte DeBruhl his two daughters That this deponent went to a school then kept in the said City by a W. Giles with the three sons of the said DeBruhl aforementioned two of which viz. the said Edward Cornwallis and Michael Samuel are now present at the taking of this Deposition-This Deponent further declares that he was in the Town of New Bern in the State of North Carolina in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy two (1772)that he there saw the said Michael Samuel DeBruhl the elder who there resides in the said Town. that the said DeBruhl did recommend him this Deponent to the Honorable and Ancient Society of Free Masons, thereby established as worthy of being a member thereof by which recommendation deponent was admitted a member.
This deponent also declares that the said Michael Samuel the elder departed this life in the said town of Newbern in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy three (1773)to his certain knowledge.

Jacob Milligan

Signed and Sworn to this 19th day of June 1794
Peter Freneau JP