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Prince George's, and Frederick counties, plus 10
lots in Annapolis (all inherited from or gifts from
his father). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: sold nearly
700 acres in Anne Arundel County and 2 lots in
Annapolis before 1774. Most of his land transac-
tions, however, were carried on in Frederick
County. In the seven years between 1756 and
1763, he acquired, mostly by patents, 1,753 acres
in Frederick County and sold 2,674 acres for a net
loss of 921 acres; but during the next seven years
he acquired 5,018 acres in Frederick County (in-
cluding patents for 3,767 acres in 1766) and sold
3,384 acres for a net gain of 1,634 acres. He did
not acquire additional land in Frederick County
after 1770, but he sold at least 3,527 acres, most of
which were in tracts of less than 200 acres.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on March 23, 1783, at
"Mt. Clare," Baltimore County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: requested that no inventory be returned and
no accounts be made. LAND: at least 15,000 acres
in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, and possi-
bly Prince George's counties, plus 7 lots in An-
napolis. In his will, written in 1781, Carroll named
his nephews, Nicholas (Maccubbin) Carroll
(1750/51-1812) and James (Maccubbin) Carroll
(1761-1832) as his principal heirs, with the condi-
tion that they legally take his surname.
CARROLL, CHARLES, OF CARROLLTON
(1737-1832). BORN, on September 19, 1737, in
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County; only child. NA-
TIVE: third generation. RESIDED: in Annapolis and
"Doughoregan Manor," Anne Arundel County;
main residence in Baltimore City about 1800. For
about the last fifteen years of his life Carroll spent
the winters with the Catons at their Lombard
Street house in Baltimore City, and the summers
at "Doughoregan Manor." FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Charles Carroll, Sr. (1702-1782).
MOTHER: Elizabeth Brooke (1709-1761). FIRST
COUSIN. Eleanor Carroll, who married Daniel Car-
roll (1730- 1796). MARRIED on June 5, 1768, Mary
(Molly) (1749-1782), daughter of Henry Darnall,
Jr. (ca. 1725-1772), of Prince George's County,
and wife Rachel (ca. 1731/32-1781); granddaugh-
ter of Clement Brooke, Jr. (?-1732). CHILDREN.
SON: Charles (1775-1825), of "Homewood,"
Baltimore County, who married in 1800 Harriet
(1775-1861), daughter of Benjamin Chew, chief
justice of Pennsylvania. DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth
(1769-1769); Mary (Polly) (1770-1846), who mar-
ried in 1786 Richard Caton (1763-1845); Louisa
Rachel (1772-1772); Anne Brooke (1776-died
young); Catherine (ca. 1778-1861), who married
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in 1801 Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825); and
Elizabeth (1780-1783). ADDITIONAL COMMENTS.
son Charles's wife was the sister of Peggy Chew,
who married John Eager Howard (1752-1827).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: Jesuit academy at
Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, 1747; College of
St. Omer, France, 1749-1753; College of French
Jesuits, Rheims, France, 1754; College of Louis-le-
Grand, Paris, France, 1755-1757; studied civil law
at Bourges, France, 1757-February 1759; com-
pleted degree in Civil Law, Paris, France, Febru-
ary-August 1759; studied law in Middle Temple,
London, England, 1759-September 1764. RELI-
GIOUS AFFILIATION: Catholic. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES. Esq., by 1795. ADDITIONAL
COMMENTS: Carroll's close relationship with his
father Charles Carroll, Sr. (1702-1782) is chroni-
cled in their voluminous correspondence extending
from Carroll's school days in France until his fa-
ther's death. In 1776 John Adams described Car-
roll as a "complete master of the French language;
yet a warm, a firm, a zealous supporter of the
rights of America, in whose cause he has hazarded
his all." OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter, who
closely supervised the management of his large
landed estate; partner in the Baltimore Ironworks
Company; landlord; moneylender. Subscribed
£1,000.0.0 to the Potomac Company, ca. 1772;
proprietor of the Susquehanna Canal in 1783. In-
terested in Alum Works Company in the 1820s.
Member of the board of directors of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad; turned the first spade of dirt for
the cornerstone of the railway on July 4, 1828.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conven-
tions, Anne Arundel County, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 4th,
1775, 5th, 1775, 6th-8th, 1775-1776 (did not at-
tend the 7th Convention), Annapolis, 9th, 1776
(Loan Office); Senate, Western Shore, Term of
1776-1781: 1777, 1777-1778, 1778-1779, 1779-
1780, 1780-1781, Term of 1781-1786: 1781-1782,
1782-1783 (elected president on May 22, 1783),
1783 (elected president on December 23, 1783),
1784, 1785, Term of 1786-1791: 1786-1787, 1787-
1788, 1788, 1789, 1790, Term of 1791-1796:
1791-1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, Term of
1796-1801: 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800. OTHER
STATE OFFICES: Committee of Correspondence,
appointed 1774; 1st Council of Safety, Western
Shore, 1775. LOCAL OFFICES: Committee of Obser-
vation, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County,
elected 1774 and 1775; common councilman, An-
napolis, 1780-1783, 1785 (resigned); alderman,
Annapolis, 1784-1785 (resigned). OUT OF STATE
SERVICE: accompanied Benjamin Franklin, Samuel
Chase (1741-1811), and Rev. John Carroll on an
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