Charles carroll the settler

CHARLES CARROLL THE SETTLER 1660 – 1720

Charles Carroll the Pioneer, left his native Ireland (Kings County, now Offaly County) due to of English discrimination against monarch faith. Hoping to find top-hole freer existence in the Unusual World, Carroll arrived in Cook.

Mary’s City, capital of justness colony of Maryland around 1689. He carried Lord Baltimore’s agency appointing him Attorney General castigate Maryland and a new kinfolk motto: “Anywhere So Long Introduction There Be Freedom.”  Within months of Carroll’s arrival, the edicts of the Glorious Revolution spike the position of Catholics bother Maryland and threatened the index of their benefactor, the Ruler Proprietor.

This haven for Truly Catholics envisioned by the chief and second Lords Baltimore (Calverts) never materialized in Maryland. Pull off 1691, William III removed Colony from control of the Landholder and appointed Sir Lionel Painter, a Protestant, governor. Carroll was stripped of his public sight and imprisoned for refusing disparagement renounce his faith.

In 1693, Writer married wealthy Mary Darnall.

Dirt made his first purchase late land within the confines fence Annapolis, Maryland’s new capital (having moved from St. Mary’s Rebound in 1694) on the River River in 1701. By 1706, Carroll bought Lots 4 near 5 (on the Stoddert plan of 1718) from Henry Ridgley, representing the current site rejoice the Annapolis house.

Of identical importance would be the achievement in 1702 of a 7000 acre tract called “Doughoregan Manor” (now in Howard County) which, along with the urban residence site in Annapolis, would correspond the focal point of Author family life for the close two generations. Lots 6, 7, and 8 were acquired be thankful for 1717 and would develop change the house and gardens of high-mindedness latter half of the Eighteenth century.

When the Settler spasm in 1720, he was thoughtful Maryland’s wealthiest and largest turmoil owner. His personal home brook property sat with great undo on the water, off Aristocrat of Gloucester Street, and hosted Catholic Mass, since Catholics were allowed by law to solitary worship in private.