Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Lewis Alexander Leonard

• Publisher: Barakaldo Books
• Year: 2022
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839747960
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Charles Carroll played a big part in the drama of American Independence, a far bigger part than is popularly supposed. School histories dismiss him with a few lines and most histories give larger space to men who played for minor parts. For this reason historical justice has never been fully accorded to Charles Carroll. This book corrects that injustice. Its author, a Marylander by birth, with the zeal and enthusiasm of a native son for his own heath, its traditions and its men of note, has given years to the research needed to unearth such a mine of historical knowledge. And with him it has been a labor of love. His forbears were intimately connected with the Carrolls and so Mr. Leonard has more than musty old records for the source of his inspiration. I believe that he has done simple justice to the name and fame of Charles Carroll and nothing more. The great pity is, it was not done years ago.
George Washington had no truer, no stauncher friend than Charles Carroll, though the world has partially blinked the fact. Others of the Colonial fathers might waver here, and falter there, but Charles Carroll always upheld the hands of Washington as Aaron and Hur upheld the hands of Moses in his battle with Amalek. In this country Charles Carroll saw the Promised Land for which sages had sighed and philosophers had dreamed and for it he risked his all on the turn of the Revolutionary die, and his all was more in worldly goods than any other signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• SOURCES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• THE MARYLAND CARROLLS
• CHAPTER I - THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND AS THE FIRST CARROLL FOUND IT
• CHAPTER II - THE FIRST CHARLES CARROLL IN THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND
• CHAPTER III - DOWNFALL OF THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT OF MARYLAND
• CHAPTER IV - CHARLES CARROLL OF ANNAPOLIS IN THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND
• CHAPTER V - STUDENT LIFE AT LE GRAND-LAW AND LOVE IN LONDON-AN INTERESTING LETTER
• CHAPTER VI - PREPARING FOR HIS RETURN TO THE HOME OF HIS CHILDHOOD
• CHAPTER VII - RETURNS TO MARYLAND AND BECOMES CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON
• CHAPTER VIII - CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON IN THE CHARACTER OF THE “FIRST CITIZEN”
• CHAPTER IX - RUMBLINGS OF COLONIAL DISCONTENT-THE CASE OF THE PEGGY STEWART
• CHAPTER X - MEETING AND WORK OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
• CHAPTER XI - NEWS FROM ENGLAND-TRIP OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO CANADA
• CHAPTER XII - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE-THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR MARYLAND
• CHAPTER XIII - SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE MEN WHO SIGNED
• CHAPTER XIV - WORK IN STATE AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION-DEATH OF FATHER AND WIFE
• CHAPTER XV - WITH WASHINGTON AND THE ARMY AT VALLEY FORGE-“THE BREWING OF A CONSPIRACY”
• CHAPTER XVI - THE CONWAY CABAL. CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON FOILS THE CONSPIRACY TO DISPLACE WASHINGTON
• CHAPTER XVII - THE PEACE OF PARIS AND CONDITIONS LEADING TO THE FRENCH ALLIANCE
• CHAPTER XVIII - FURTHER DETAILS OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF, AND ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE
• CHAPTER XIX - ROBERT MORRIS WITH THE AID OF CARROLL AND OTHERS SAVES THE FINANCIAL SITUATION
• CHAPTER XX - THE WAR NEARING AN END-MR. CARROLL’S INTEREST IN THE MARYLAND LINE
• CHAPTER XXI - EARLY DAYS OF PEACE-THE NEW GOVERNMENT-MR. CARROLL A UNITED STATES SENATOR
• CHAPTER XXII - RESIGNS AS A SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE MAY REMAIN A SENATOR OF MARYLAND-THE INDIAN COMMERCE
• CHAPTER XXIII - ATTENTION TO THE ESTATE-DEATH OF HIS SON CHARLES OF HOMESTEAD
• CHAPTER XXIV - ORGANIZING THE B. & O. R. R.-LAFAYETTE’S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES IN PRIVATE LIFE
• CHAPTER XXV - BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S. NAVY
• CHAPTER XXVI - LOUIS LE GRANDE COLLEGE WHERE THE SPARK OF LIBERTY WAS FANNED INTO A FLAME-CARROLL AND LAFAYETTE
• CHAPTER XXVII - BENEVOLENT AND BUSINESS INTERESTS-AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM GENERAL WASHINGTON-CLOSING OF A GREAT CAREER
• CHAPTER XXVIII - THE CARROLLS OF THE PAST AND OF TODAY
• CHAPTER XXIX - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE JULY 4, 1776
• APPENDIX - THE JOURNAL