State of South Carolina
City of Charleston
Peter Freneau one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in the said State to all to whom these presents shall come, make known that on this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one hundred and ninety four. Personally appeared Robert Simms of the said city of Charleston Esquire who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God made oath
that some time in the year One Thousand seven hundred and eighty four to the best of his recollection he became acquainted with an elderly lady in the town of George Town in the said State who went by the name of Mrs DeBruhl who resided in the house of a W. Godard DeBruhl
(now deceased as the deponent is informed who he informed this deponent was her son and who acknowledge and treat her as a Mother, that he also saw at the said house in the year last aforesaid Michael Samuel DeBruhl who is now present at the taking of this affidavit, that said Mrs DeBruhl did then acknowledge the said Michael Samuel DeBruhl, to be her son and this deponent
knows that the said Michael Samuel DeBruhl had then come from one of the Bahama Islands (Nassau)where he resides to visit his mother, this deponent further declares that he is acquainted with Julianna Kerr (late Julianna DeBruhl) the wife of Stephen Kerr who resides near the Town of George Town aforesaid, who the said Mrs. DeBruhl acknowledges to be her daughter, to this deponent, and he had frequently heard the said Julianna Kerr acknowledge Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl who is also now present at the taking of this deposition to be her brother, this deponent also declares that to his knowledge the said Mrs DeBruhl departed this life some time in the latter part of the year 1784, was buried in the Episcopal Church in George Town aforesaid.
Signed and sworn to Robert Simons
this day and year first above
written
Peter Freneau JP
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