Carroll, Charles. Journal of Charles Carroll, 1776. 1876. Reprint. New York: New York Times, 1969. Originally published as Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
CARROLL, Charles (of Carrollton), (cousin of Charles Carroll, the Barrister, and Daniel Carroll), a Delegate and a Senator from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., September 19, 1737; attended the Jesuits' College of Bohemia at Hermans Manor, Md., and the College of St. Omer in France; studied civil law at the College of Louis le Grand in Rheims, and common law in London; returned to Annapolis, Md., in 1765; delegate to the revolutionary convention of Maryland in 1775; Continental commissioner to Canada in 1776; member of the Board of War 1776-1777; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1776-1778; again elected to the Continental Congress in 1780, but declined to serve; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; member, State senate 1777-1800; elected to the United States Senate in 1789; reelected in 1791 and served from March 4, 1789, to November 30, 1792, when, preferring to remain a State senator, he resigned because of a law passed by the Maryland legislature disqualifying the members of the State senate who held seats in Congress; retired to private life in 1801; involved in establishing the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in 1828; died in Baltimore, Md., November 14, 1832; at the time of his death was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence; interment in the chapel of Doughoregan Manor, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Md.
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[ Top ]Carroll, Charles. Journal of Charles Carroll, 1776. 1876. Reprint. New York: New York Times, 1969. Originally published as Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Crowl, Philip A., ed. "Charles Carroll's Plan of Government."American Historical Review 46 (April 1941): 588-95.
"Extracts from the Carroll Papers." Maryland Historical Magazine 10 (June 1915): 143-59; (September 1915): 218-58; (December 1915): 322-44; 11 (March 1916): 66-73; (June 1916): 175-89; (September 1916): 261-79; (December 1916): 322-48; 12 (March 1917): 21-41; (June 1917): 166-87; (September 1917): 276-96; (December 1917): 347-69; 13 (March 1918): 54-75; (June 1918): 171-79; (September 1918): 249-67; 14 (June 1919): 127-54; (September 1919): 272-93; (December 1919): 358-71; 15 (March 1920): 56-65; (June 1920): 194-201; (September 1920): 274-91; 16 (1921): 29-42.
Field, Thomas Meagher, ed. Unpublished Letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and of His Father, Charles Carroll of Doughoregan. New York: United States Catholic Historical Society, 1902.
Fitzgerald, Charles E. "Charles Carroll of Carrollton and the Constitution." Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 1927.
Gurn, Joseph. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1932.
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Hoffman, Ronald, ed. Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father Charles Carroll of Annapolis. Chapel Hill, NC : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, and the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
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