Nicholas Broyles signature?
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Culpeper Co., Va. 
When: 1776.
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If you examine the document (see the Biography for a link) you'll see there are groups of signatures that have similar handwriting. In other words, someone signed on behalf of a group of men. The "signature" of Nicholas is in a group of somewhat similar-looking, very German, handwriting, making it unlikely that Nicholas signed his own name.
Though it looks like a lower case b, the last name begins with a German capital B. The line over the u is a shorthand way of writing the umlaut, or two dots over the ü. Adding an umlaut is equivalent to adding the letter e, so ü is equivalent to "ue". Thus, the last name can also be written Breuel. "eu" is pronounced "oy" and the name would be pronounced as Broyel.