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in gifts and annuities. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
ca. 11,788 acres in Baltimore and Anne Arundel
counties, plus 12,700 acres in Frederick County
(most as gifts from his father). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: inherited his father's property of at
least 16,000 acres in Anne Arundel and Talbot
counties, plus 28 lots in Annapolis and 2 lots
owned jointly with his father in Bath, Virginia
(Berkley Springs, West Virginia). Assessment of
property in Annapolis, including 19 houses and
1.5 acres with improvements, was $9,000.00, 1819.
Carroll owned at least 28,000 acres in Pennsylva-
nia by 1820 and a resurvey of "Doughoregan
Manor" totaled 13,361 acres. Carroll also ab-
sorbed the real property of his children, usually as
security for debts which he had assumed for them.
He controlled the Harper and Caton estates in
Baltimore County, their townhouses in Baltimore
City, and 45,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania and
New York which Harper and Caton had acquired
through speculation. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on
November 14, 1832; buried at "Doughoregan
Manor." PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
$1,460,004.86 (including 259 slaves, plate valued
at $6,203.00, 75 books, a gristmill, sawmill, cha-
pel, stocks and bonds in roads, banks, the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Georgetown
Bridge Company, and a gold mine in North Caro-
lina, and loans to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and
the United States); FB, $680,250.14 before distri-
butions, but including some interest and dividends
received as late as 1855. LAND. ca. 57,000 acres in
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, and Talbot
counties, plus lots in Annapolis and Baltimore
City, and land in New York State and Pennsylva-
nia.
CARROLL, DANIEL (1730-1796). BORN: on
July 22, 1730, in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's
County; eldest surviving son. NATIVE: at least sec-
ond generation. RESIDED: referred to alternately as
being from Prince George's and Frederick counties
throughout the 1750s and 1760s; Northwest Hun-
dred, Frederick County, 1776; Rock Creek Parish,
Forest Glen, Montgomery County, 1777-1796.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Daniel Carroll
(1696-1751), of Prince George's County, a pros-
perous merchant, son of Kean Carroll, of Ireland.
MOTHER Eleanor Darnall (1709-1796), educated
in France, held much of her husband's property in
her own name through her long widowhood.
BROTHERS: Henry (?-drowned as a child); John
(1735-1815), appointed head of the Roman Cath-
olic Church of America on November 25, 1784;
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appointed bishop, 1789; founded Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., 1789; appointed
archbishop, 1808. SISTERS: Ann (Nancy) (1733-
1804), who married Robert Brent (?-1780), of
Stafford County, Virginia; Eleanor, who married
William Brent; Mary (1742-?), who married Not-
ley Young; and Elizabeth (1743-after 1796).
NIECE: Catherine Brent, who married George
Digges (ca. 1742-1792). MARRIED his cousin Elea-
nor (?-1763), daughter of Daniel Carroll of "Dud-
dington Manor" (1707-1734) and wife Ann
Rozier; stepdaughter of Benjamin Young (?-1754),
a lawyer and relative of Lord Baltimore; niece of
Charles Carroll, Sr. (1702-1782), of Annapolis.
Her brother was Charles, of Duddington (1729-?).
Her sister was Mary, who married Ignatius
Digges. Her first cousin was Charles Carroll of
Carrollton (1737-1832). CHILDREN. SON Daniel
(1752-1790), who married Elizabeth Digges.
DAUGHTER: Mary (1754-?), who married Col. Pat-
rick Sim. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION attended
Bohemia Academy, Cecil County; attended the
Jesuit College of St. Omer in France, 1742-1748.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Catholic. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., 1750; Esq., 1765; a ma-
son, admitted to Lodge No. 16, 1780. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: planter; merchant. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Senate, Western
Shore, Term of 1781-1786: 1781-1782, 1782-1783
(elected, but did not serve), 1783 (president, but
replaced in this capacity on December 23, 1783,
because of illness), 1784, 1785 (elected president
on January 18, 1786, to replace George Plater),
Term of 1786-1791: 1786-1787 (elected president
on May 21, 1787, to replace George Plater), 1787-
1788 (elected president on May 15, 1788, to re-
place George Plater; served as president until May
24, 1788), 1788 (elected president on December
16, 1788, to replace George Plater), 1789 (presi-
dent, but replaced in this capacity on December 7,
1789, after requesting a leave of absence), 1790.
OTHER STATE OFFICE Executive Council, 1777-
1778, 1778-1779, 1779-1780, 1780-1781. OUT OF
STATE SERVICE: delegate, Continental Congress,
1781-1783 (elected on January 16, 1781, to fill
vacancy; reelected in November 1781 and Novem-
ber 1782; chosen chairman, September 9 and No-
vember 3, 1783, during absence of the president);
Federalist delegate, Constitutional Convention,
1789-1791; representative, U.S. Congress, 1789-
1791; appointed by George Washington to survey
the District of Columbia; first Board of Commis-
sioners, District of Columbia, appointed in 1791
(resigned in 1795 due to poor health). STANDS ON
PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: signer of the Articles of
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