CHARLES CARROLL. CHARLES CARROLL, surnamed of Carrollton, the subject of the present sketch, and the son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth Brook, was born the eighth of September, 1737, O. S. (twentieth September, N. S.) at Annapolis in the state of Maryland. Charles Carroll, the son of Daniel Carroll, of Littamourna, King's county, Ireland, and of the Inner Temple, the grandfather of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was a clerk in the office of lord Powis, under the reign of James second, and left England a short time previous to the accession of King William, to further his fortunes in America. At the instance and through the influence of lord Powis, Mr. Carroll was appointed, in 1691, to succeed colonel Henry Darnell as judge and register of the land office, and agent and receiver of rents for lord Baltimore in the province of Maryland. He appears to have been a man of influence and importance in the administration of the provincial affairs, and in 1718 was one of those who were expressly exempted from any disqualification on account of religion. Charles Carroll, born in 1702, the father of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, took an active part in the affairs of the provincial government, and in the religious dis ministration of the provincial affairs, and in 1718 was one of those who were expressly exempted from any disqualification on account of religion. Charles Carroll, born in 1702, the father of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, took an active part in the affairs of the provincial government, and in the religious dis 241 ing to the West. After an active and useful life Charles Carroll died in 1782, at the advanced age of eighty years. In 1745, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, then eight years old, was taken to the college of English Jesuits at St. Omers, to be educated. Here he remained for six years, and left it to pursue his studies at a college of French Jesuits, at Rheims. After staying one year at Rheims, he was sent to the college of Louis Le Grand, and during his stay at this place, his father visited France, as before mentioned. From Louis Le Grand, Mr. Carroll went at the expiration of two years, to Bourges, the capital of the province of Berry, to study the civil law, and after remaining there for one year, returned to college at Paris, where he continued until 1757, in which year he visited London, and taking apartments in the temple, commenced the study of the law. In 1764, he returned to his native place, during the first discussion of those principles, which being honestly proclaimed, and fearlessly supported, occassioned the war of the revolution. The violence of religious disputes had by this time almost entirely subsided; and the irritation produced by the stamp act, in 1766, turned popular feeling into another and more interesting channel. From this period, political discussion became free and unreserved. Suspicion of the mother country induced investigation; investigation developed principles and discovered rights; and talent of a high character stepped forward to explain the one, and claim the other. Among those VOL. VII. í h -- |