CARROLL, Charles, ?of Carrollton,* American patriot: b. Annapolis, Md., 20 Sept. 1737; d. Baltimore, 14 Nov. 1832. He attended several schools abroad; studied law in Paris and London, where he became a member of the Inner • returned to his native country in 1764. In 1775 he became a member of the °Committee of Observation* at Annapolis and in the same year was chosen member of the provincial convention. In 1776, he was one of the commission sent to persuade Canada to join the War of Independence. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, and with the other members signed the Declaration of Independence, on 2 August of the following year. To make certain his identity, he added °of Carrollton* to his signature, thus distin guishing himself from another by using the name of his family mansion. After many more yeais of important public service to the State of Maryland and to the new republic, as drafter of the Maryland constitution, State senator, congressman, again senator (1789) and member of the Maryland and Virginia BoUndary Commission, in 1804 he withdrew to private life at Carrollton, which was his patri monial estate. There as his life advanced he became an object of universal veneration. He
survived by six years all the other signers of the Declaration. Consult Latrobe, J. H. B., 'Life' (Philadelphia 1824); Mayer (ed.), 'Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 'during his Visit to Canada in 1776, as One of the Commissioners from Congress' (Baltimore 1845); Rowland,