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| Publisher: | Omohundro Institute and UNC Press |
| Publication date: | 10/30/2015 |
| Series: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press , #3 |
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Dear Papa, Dear Charley
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary AmericaThe University of North Carolina Press
Copyright © 2001 University of North Carolina PressAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8078-2649-2
Preface
Descended from the O'Carrolls, a Gaelic Irish sept whose ancestral territory lay principally in what is today the Republic of Ireland's County Offaly, Charles Carroll of Carrollton's grandfather, a man historians have designated Charles Carroll the Settler, was the first Carroll to leave Europe for North America. Arriving in Maryland on October 1, 1688, he brought with him an appointment as attorney general in the colony's proprietary government and a determination to reverse the fate that English rule had imposed upon his Catholic kin. By the time of the Settler's birth in 1661, his father and other close relatives had already lost their lands and much of their wealth to confiscation as a consequence of their participation in the 1641 rebellion. The bitter memory of this and other similar injustices found expression in the Settler's defiant personality and fueled his ambition to prosper and prevail in Maryland, a province known for its official hospitality to Roman Catholics. Indicative both of his remembrance of the past and his designs for the future, the Settler changed the motto on his family's crest from "In fide et in bello forte" ("Strong in faith and war") to "Ubicumque cum libertate" ("Anywhere so long as there be freedom").The optimism suggested by that alteration proved to be short-lived. Scarcely had Charles Carroll the Settler reached Maryland when the changes wrought by England's Glorious Revolution crossed the Atlantic to cause major problems for Catholics in Lord Baltimore's supposedly tolerant colony. Using the ouster of James II and the subsequent elevation of William and Mary to the English throne as a pretext, Maryland Protestants vented their long-standing jealousy of the proprietor's practice of awarding the most lucrative government posts to Catholics through a "risinge in arms" that transferred the right to govern the province from the proprietary family to the crown. In consolidating their victory, the Associators, as the Protestant rebels were known, began to put in place in the colony the same kinds of legal restrictions that circumscribed the lives of Catholics in England and Ireland, with the result that by 1704 Maryland law forbade Catholics to worship publicly, to give their children a Catholic education, and to hold public office without swearing oaths inimical to the Catholic religion.
Deprived by his allegiance to his faith of his post as attorney general with its promising implications of access to political power, the Settler found other means of acquiring wealth and influence. Twice wed, he advanced himself measurably through both unions, especially the second, which made him the son-in-law of Colonel Henry Darnall I, Maryland's most powerful Catholic and protector of Lord Baltimore's extensive propertied interests. Quickly becoming Darnall's protégé and then his confidante, the Settler made himself so valuable that, upon Darnall's death in 1711, Lord Baltimore transferred to him all that gentleman's offices and responsibilities. Similarly, the Settler began his steady acquisition of land with the 1,381 acres Darnall bestowed upon him as a wedding gift, and at his death in 1720, the 47,777 acres he had accumulated made him the largest landowner in the province.
In addition to his activities as Lord Baltimore's representative and as a planter, the Settler developed extensive mercantile interests, practiced law in those courts that did not require the swearing of the noxious oaths, and began about 1700 to lend money on bonds and mortgages, an undertaking he pursued tenaciously and with such skill that by 1714 he had become the colony's largest lender. The value of the legacy he bequeathed to his heirs attests the full measure of his success: the total worth of his assets, excluding land, amounted to u7,535 and constituted the largest personal estate that had ever been probated in Maryland to that time.
Unfortunately for his co-religionists and his descendants, Charles Carroll the Settler's political ambitions failed to reap similar rewards. Following the return of Maryland's government to the newly Protestant proprietary family in 1715, the Settler made a bold attempt to reclaim for Roman Catholics the privileges of officeholding they had enjoyed under the Lords Baltimore prior to 1690. Instead he succeeded only in goading the Protestant power structure into enacting further restrictions, the most onerous being a law depriving Catholics of the right to vote. They would not regain the franchise until the American Revolution.
On July 1, 1720, Charles Carroll the Settler died. Eighteen-year-old Charles, his eldest son and heir, was called home from school in France to assume responsibility for his family's affairs in behalf of his mother, his younger brother Daniel, and his two younger sisters, Mary and Eleanor. By 1742, Charles, then known as Charles Carroll of Annapolis, had buried them all and assumed sole responsibility for the estate the Settler had built. Along with this considerable material inheritance, Charles Carroll of Annapolis also received an important intangible legacy-the memory of the experiences in Ireland and Maryland that spurred his father's quest to establish and make secure his Catholic family and their fortune. As their correspondence reveals, this heritage shaped Charles Carroll of Annapolis and his son, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, in remarkable ways.
1. The definitive study of this period of Maryland history is Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan, Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1974).
2. Lord Baltimore still retained ownership of the colony's land and rights to specific revenues from it. To protect these interests, he maintained an active organization in Maryland during the period of royal rule, 1690-1715.
3. For a detailed analysis of the process by which the Settler built his fortune, see Ronald Hoffman, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2000), chap. 2.
A SELECTION OF LETTERS FROM THE CARROLL PAPERS
CC to CCA and Elizabeth Brooke Blandike, Sept. the 4th: 1749 Dear Papa. & Mama.
I cannot be better satisfied with a Place than this where I hope to accomplish my Studies to your greatest satisfaction. I receiv'd your desires with the greatest joy imaginable in staying in little figures another year, where I hope either to be 1st or 2nd. I hope you & all my friends will excuse me for not writing for Yesterday falling down, I hurt my arm very much. I hope Dear Papa & Mama this will find you in a good state of health & desire you woud give my kind love & Service to all friends[.] I am, Dear Papa & Mama
Your ever loving Son Charles Carroll
CCA to CC October 9th. 1752. Dear Charley
Since mine of the 12th of Octr: 1751. I have had the pleasure of Yors: of May 25th: Augt 26[th] Febry 22d. 1752. The two first were very much interlined and Blotted, the last was more cor[rect] it is time for yo[u] now in all things to use Reflection Age quod Ages].]
Your first by Mr Lancaster who stayd in England did not reach me until last A[pril.] I am glad you are sensible of the happiness of having So good a Mar: and study to make him to [be] your Friend, and to do so you need but do your Duty, pray present my Service and Complimen[ts.]
I hope you are not in earnest longing to return to Maryland, We should be as glad to see you as [you] would be to see us, but I flatter my Self that you have so much good Sense that if it were in [your] power to come you would chuse to stay to accomplish yourself as much as possible by pur[suing] your studies; what is a man without knowledge? and how is knowledge to be acquired but by [a] long Course of Study. Your Mamma has desired you to send her your Picture in Miniature[;] if there be good Hand in Town and it be agreeable to your Superiors comply wth her Reque[st.] I will make good her promise of reimbursing you.
You have now read Cicero's Epistles and are reading his Orations, & therefore I ho[pe to] find you improve in the Stile of your Letters. That you may be acquaintd [with such?] an Author I have desired Mr Galloway to send You his Life Wrote by Middleton [& I sent?] you the Odyssy which you left behind you, Francis's Translation of Horace, and Dryd[en's] Translation of Virgil they will help you to understand those Authors well and to [enter] into the Spirit of them to aid your Judgment and form a taste in you. I have al[so] desired Mr Galloway to send you two Guineas, as to the Books carry them with [you] when you leave the Colledge, you will read them a few years hence with m[ore] pleasure than at present.
All the Letters I have or shall write to you or concerning you to any o[ne] are carefully entred in a Book so that in case you should be so unfortunate [as to] return not improvd in proportion to the Money Time and Care laid out on you [they] will at least be undeniable Testimonies of my Attention to your Welfare and a cons[tant] Reproach to you for not correspondg on your part to that attention, but to do you Justice from the Accots I have of yo[u] from Cousin Carroll Mr Newton & Mr Wappeler I have no reason to apprehend your doing otherwise than Well, and I pray my Dear Charley make it your constant Study and Endeavour to deserve the contin[uance] of theirs and my Approbation.
I desire my Service to Cousin Jackey Mar: Hoxton and Mar Warrin[g. The] latters Uncle Basil is lately married to Miss Susan Darnall; Watty['s Father] & Mother are well Give my Compliments to Mr: Molien and be assurd that [I] am My Dear Charley
Yor most Affecly Charles Carroll
Elizabeth Carroll to CC [Aug. 29, 1758]
I can not express my dear Child the Joy I felt at meeting with yr Papa nor the Satisfaction & Comfort I recd. from his Conversation concerning you[.] I find his Opinion of you just to my wishes & I am Certain that no Parent can have a greater tenderness for his Child then yrs has for you, nor repose a greater Confidence nor be more at Ease at his Sons being at so great a distance, which are all Convincing proofs of yr Merit. I perused all yr letters to yr Papa & those to me with the utmost pleasure, they are so full of tenderness & affection for us that they cou'd not fail to delight & at the same time to draw Tears from me. Yr Relations & Friends are all well except yr Aunt Jenny who has been much indisposed for some time past with a Cancer in her Breast but it is now in a fair way of geting well, she is with me & gives her tender Love to you. Watty Hoxton came to see us about 3 weeks ago he told me he wou'd answer yr letter by the first opperty. I bid him inform you that he was a going to be Marrid he replyed it wou'd Scare you to hear that peice of News therefore he wou'd not mention it to you. I donte [....] an agreable young [...] & a Roman Catholick I wish him happy but I think him quite to young to Marry.
You are always at heart my dear Charly & I am never tired asking yr Papa questions about you some times to tease, he answers me that you are a good for no thing Ugly little fellow, but when he Speaks his Real Sentiments of you there is not any thing can give me greater Comfort.
I daily pray to God to grant you his grace above all things & to take you under his protection. I have no thing more to add at present only that I am with the greatest tenderness.
Yr Affectionate & Loveing Mother Eliza. Carroll
CCA to CC March 22d 1761 Dr C[h]arley
Your Dr: Mama died the 12th Instt: having been confined to her Room since the 20th of last Decr: & to her Bed for at least the 3 last Weeks. She was to all Appearance in perfect health looked florid & well, her Complexion fine & clear when she was attacked with 3 or 4 very high fevers, these were Removed by a Blister & she was to all appearance in a fine way when she fell into a very deep Melancholy wch often affected her Senses & Understanding, a gentle Emetic contributed greatly to relieve her & restore her to her Senses, & it was repeated. In some days after the 2d Emetic she was taken with an obstinate Bilious Vomitting wch was very frequent & tormenting; from the 2d Vomit, wch I think was given on the 27th of Janry she never had a natural stool all her Evacuations downwards being procured by Clysters, however her Vomitting was much abated, & little was apprehended from it, & wt: is very remarkable she was generally very temperate & had no sensible fevers until the 5th Instt: then she also began at times to ramble in her discourse & her fevers wch.could not be removed wore her away. If 4 Physicians could have saved her I shd: still be blessed with her. Our Loss is as great as such a loss can be, to you she was a most tender Mother, to me the best of wives being a Charming Woman in every sense, remarkable for her good Sense evenness & Sweetness of her temper. She bore her tedious Sickness with great patience & Resignation, & had all the Spiritual helps the Church can bestow in such Cases. Hence, & from the Regularity of her life we have the solid Comfort of a well grounded hope that her Death was precious in the Sight of God: Charity however to one so near & dear to us prompts us to procure her ease from the pains she may suffer for such Transgressions as she may not have Attoned for in this life & therfore I desire you will apply 10 Guineas properly to that end, I have bestowed here a much larger Sum to the same purpose-
Nature can hardly support such Strokes Philosophy alone cannot administer any solid Com[fo]rt, for th" Death be the common Lot, th" many from the Creation have lost as tender mothers & dear wives & will continue to do so to the end of time, we do not find more Consolation from this Consideration than we shd: find ease in a fit of the Gout or any other disorder from the Reflection that many have & will [feel] as Excruciating pains as ours. Religion in such Cases is the only solid Comforter of the afflicted, by that we know, that the God who has Created us has a Right to dispose of us, that his Dispositions are just & mercyfull & that it is our Duty to submit to them, hence a Xtian, by Resignation (wch is his Duty) finds that ease wch nothing else can give him, & is according to Gods infinite goodness rewarded with ease in Consequence of his Obedience, Submission & Resignation. I have dwelt so long on this melancholy Subject to soften if possible the 1st. impressions it must make on you, & to help you to bear yr. loss. You have before you an Affecting instance of Mortality, life is but as the Twinkling of the Eye to Eternity, the only serious business of life is to make that Eternity a happy one & the certainest pledge of a happy Eternity is a lively habitual faith, pray earnestly for this precious faith & cherish it; having it you cannot act so inconsistently & irrationally as to offend yr: God.
Farewell my Dear Child, I pray to God to bless you & to grant you perfect Health. I am my Dr Charley
Yr: Mo: Afft: Father Cha: Carroll
PS
I have yrs of the 1st of Janry wch with yr: former I will answer soon-
CC to CCA June 10th. 1761. Dr Papa,
I received yesterday the afflicting news of my dear Mama's death. Yr. Letter, if any thing cou'd, wou'd have given some comfort: but what comfort can there be for so great a loss. I loved my Mama most tenderly: how strong how cogent were the motives of my love! How affectionate, how tender, how loving a mother was she to me! What fond delusive hopes have I entertained of seeing her again! I was too credulous: all my imaginary Joys are vanished in an instant: they are succeeded by the bitter cruel thought of never seeing more my loved lost Mother: the greatest blessing I wished for in this life was to see to enjoy my Parents after so long a separation to comfort to support them in an advanced age: one is for ever snatched from me! May God almighty Dr. Papa preserve yr. health & grant you a long life: were you to leave me too, oh then I shou'd be compleatly miserable indeed: death wou'd then be the only comforter of a sad, distressed, unhappy son. Pray Let not yr. loss affect you too deeply: it may impair yr. health: remember you are now my only consolation in this world.
(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
| Volume III | ||
| Illustrations | xi | |
| Abbreviations and Short Titles | xiii | |
| Chapter 7 | The Home Front, 1778-1779 | 1151 |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, July 20, 1778 | 1153 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Aug. 3, 1778 | 1153 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Aug. 15, 1778 | 1154 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Aug. 29, 1778 | 1156 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Oct. 1, 1778 | 1158 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Oct. 9, 1778 | 1159 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Oct. 28, 1778 | 1160 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 30, 1778 | 1161 | |
| CCC to CCA, Nov. 1, 1778 | 1162 | |
| A Resolution of the Maryland House of Delegates, [Nov. 14, 1778] | 1164 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 16, 1778 | 1164 | |
| CCC to CCA, Nov. 18, 1778 | 1165 | |
| A Letter from CCA on the Repeal of the Tender Law, Nov. 23, 1778 | 1166 | |
| William Buchanan to CCC, Nov. 25, 1778 | 1173 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 30, 1778 | 1174 | |
| CCC to CCA, Dec. 1, 1778 | 1175 | |
| CCA's Account of Paper Money Paid for Sterling, [May 6, 1777-Dec. 14, 1778] | 1176 | |
| CCC to William Carmichael, Feb. 8, 1779 | 1178 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 29, 1779 | 1182 | |
| CCC to CCA, Mar. 31, 177[9] | 1183 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 2, 1779 | 1187 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 8, 1779 | 1188 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 10, 1779 | 1189 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 12, 1779 | 1190 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 16, 1779 | 1191 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 17, 1779 | 1193 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 22, 1779 | 1195 | |
| Enclosure: CCA's Memorandum concerning the Weather, [Apr. 18, 1779] | 1198 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 24, 1779 | 1199 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 25, 1779 | 1200 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 28, 177[9] | 1201 | |
| CCC to CCA, April 29, 1779 | 1202 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, May 2, 1779 | 1204 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 3, 1779 | 1205 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 7, 1779 | 1206 | |
| CCC to William Carmichael, May 7, 1779 | 1208 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 8, 1779 | 1209 | |
| CCC to CCA, [May 14, 1779] | 1212 | |
| CCC to CCA, May [1]8, 1779 | 1213 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 21, 1779 | 1214 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 22, 1779 | 1215 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 23, 1779 | 1217 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, May 24, 1779 | 1218 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 24, 1779 | 1222 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 28, 1779 | 1223 | |
| CCC to William Carmichael, May 31, 1779 | 1224 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, June 21, 1779 | 1227 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, June 30, 1779 | 1230 | |
| William Carmichael to CCC, July 13, 1779 | 1232 | |
| CCA to William Fitzhugh, July 15, 1779 | 1233 | |
| CCA to CCC, July 15, 1779 | 1235 | |
| CCC to CCA, July 15, 1779 | 1237 | |
| CCA to CCC, July 21, 1779 | 1239 | |
| CCA to Pierre Penet, July 23, 1779 | 1241 | |
| CCC to CCA, July 24, 1779 | 1242 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, July 25, 1779 | 1248 | |
| CCA to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, July 30, 1779 | 1250 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Aug. 2, 1779 | 1251 | |
| CCA to CCC, Aug. 10, 1779 | 1253 | |
| CCC to CCA, Aug. 12, 1779 | 1255 | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to CCA, Aug. 12, 1779 | 1257 | |
| Enclosure 1 | A Copy of Samuel Chase's Letter to John Dorsey, [May, 4, 1779] | 1258 |
| Enclosure 2 | A Copy of Robert Lemmon's Letter to Col. William Fitzhugh, Aug. 6, 1779 | 1260 |
| CCA to CCC, Aug. 17, 1779 | 1261 | |
| CCC to CCA, Aug. 19, 1779 | 1265 | |
| CCA to CCC, Aug. 27, 1779 | 1266 | |
| Enclosure: CCA's List of Cash Sent to CCC at Bath, [Aug. 27, 1779] | 1268 | |
| CCC to William Carmichael, Sept. 28, 1779 | 1268 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 18, 1779 | 1274 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 21, 1779 | 1275 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 22, 1779 | 1277 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 23, 1779 | 1279 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 24, 1779 | 1280 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 25, 1779 | 1281 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 26, 1779 | 1283 | |
| Enclosure: A Copy of a Sheriff's Account, [October 1779] | 1286 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 4, 1779 | 1286 | |
| CCC to CCA, Nov. 5, 1779 | 1288 | |
| CCC to CCA, Nov. 7, 177[9] | 1291 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, Nov. 7, 1779 | 1292 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 9, 1779 | 1293 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 19, 1779 | 1294 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, Nov. 27, 1779 | 1296 | |
| CCA to CCC, Dec. 3, 1779 | 1296 | |
| CCC to CCA, Dec. 4, 1779 | 1298 | |
| CCC to Benjamin Franklin, Dec. 5, 1779 | 1301 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, Dec. 7, 1779 | 1304 | |
| CCA to CCC, Dec. 8, 1779 | 1308 | |
| Chapter 8 | Final Battles, 1780-1782 | 1310 |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 5, 1780 | 1312 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 8, 1780 | 1313 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 11, 1780 | 1315 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 16, 1780 | 1318 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 17, [1780] | 1319 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 21, 1780 | 1323 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 21, 1780 | 1324 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 29, 1780 | 1326 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, May 1, 1780 | 1328 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 4, 1780 | 1329 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 6, 1780 | 1330 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 11, 1780 | 1332 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 12, 1780 | 1333 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 13, 1780 | 1334 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 27, 1780 | 1335 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 1, 1780 | 1338 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 6, 1780 | 1340 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 10, [1780] | 1342 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 11, 1780 | 1344 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 13, 1780 | 1344 | |
| Enclosure: CCA's Addition to His Letter of June 13, 1780, June 14, [1780] | 1345 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 15, 1780 | 1346 | |
| Enclosure: A Clause from "An Act to procure a loan," [June 1780] | 1347 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 19, 1780 | 1348 | |
| A Last Will and Testament of CCA, June 19, 1780 | 1348 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 23, 1780 | 1350 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 23, 1780 | 1351 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 24, 1780 | 1352 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 25, 1780 | 1353 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 25, 1780 | 1354 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 27, 1780 | 1354 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 30, 1780 | 1355 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, July 22, 1780 | 1356 | |
| CCC to William Carmichael, Aug. 9, 1780 | 1357 | |
| CCC to John Hanson, [Aug. 15, 1780] | 1363 | |
| Daniel Carroll to CCC, Aug. 26, 1780 | 1366 | |
| Daniel Carroll to CCC, Sept. 8, 1780 | 1369 | |
| Daniel Carroll to CCC, Sept. 10, 1780 | 1371 | |
| John Hanson to CCC, Sept. 11, 1780 | 1374 | |
| John Hanson to CCC, Sept. 18, 1780 | 1377 | |
| John Hanson to CCC, Oct. 16, 1780 | 1378 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 22, 1780 | 1380 | |
| Molly Carroll to CCC, [Oct. 22, 1780] | 1381 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 26, 1780 | 1382 | |
| John Hanson to CCC, Oct. 30, 1780 | 1383 | |
| CCC to CCA, Nov. 28, 1780 | 1387 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 29, 1780 | 1390 | |
| CCA to CCC, Dec. 9, 1780 | 1391 | |
| CCA to CCC, Dec. 17, 1780 | 1392 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 1, 1781 | 1394 | |
| CCC to Joshua Johnson, Jan. 5, 1781 | 1395 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 6, 1781 | 1396 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 7, 1781 | 1397 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 13, 1781 | 1397 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 21, 1781 | 1399 | |
| CCA to CCC, Jan. 30, 1781 | 1401 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 22, 1781 | 1402 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 27, 1781 | 1403 | |
| Enclosure 1: Rhisa Todd to CCA, Mar. 24, 1781 | 1404 | |
| Enclosure 2: Rhisa Todd to CCA, Mar. 24, 1781 | 1405 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 27, [1781] | 1405 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 30, 1781 | 1406 | |
| CCC to CCA, Mar. 31, 1781 | 1408 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 3, 1781 | 1409 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 5, 1781 | 1411 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 10, 1781 | 1412 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 11, 1781 | 1415 | |
| CCC to CCA, [Apr.] 12, [1781] | 1418 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 13, 1781 | 1419 | |
| CCC to CCA, Apr. 15, 1781 | 1419 | |
| CCA to CCC, Apr. 18, 1781 | 1421 | |
| Enclosure: CCA's List of Classes in Anne Arundel County, [1781] | 1422 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 2, 1781 | 1422 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 4, 1781 | 1426 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 5, 1781 | 1427 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 7, 1781 | 1427 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 12, 1781 | 1429 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 13, 1781 | 1431 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 21, 1781 | 1432 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 22, 1781 | 1434 | |
| CCC to CCA, May 24, 1781 | 1435 | |
| CCA to CCC, May 29, 1781 | 1439 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 1, 1781 | 1440 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 4, 1781 | 1442 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 4, 1781 | 1445 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 9, 1781 | 1446 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 14, 1781 | 1447 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 16, 1781 | 1448 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 16, 1781 | 1448 | |
| Samuel Chase to the Maryland Gazette, [June 21, 1781] | 1449 | |
| CCA to CCC, June 22, 1781 | 1457 | |
| CCC to CCA, June 22, 1781 | 1457 | |
| CCC to Thomas Sim Lee, Aug. 4, 1781 | 1461 | |
| CCC to Thomas Sim Lee, Aug. 5, 1781 | 1463 | |
| CCC to Thomas Sim Lee, Aug. 11, 1781 | 1463 | |
| CCC to Thomas Sim Lee, Aug. 18, 1781 | 1466 | |
| CCC to Samuel Chase, [Aug. 23, 1781] | 1467 | |
| Samuel Chase to the Maryland Gazette, [Aug. 23, 1781] | 1474 | |
| CCC to Thomas Sim Lee, Aug. 26, 1781 | 1475 | |
| A Poem by Richard Croxall, [1781] | 1476 | |
| CCC to Samuel Chase, [Aug. 30, 1781] | 1477 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 15, 1781 | 1481 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 18, 1781 | 1483 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 18, 1781 | 1484 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 19, 1781 | 1486 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 20, 1781 | 1487 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 23, 1781 | 1489 | |
| CCC to CCA, Oct. 25, 1781 | 1489 | |
| CCA to CCC, Oct. 30, 1781 | 1491 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 7, 1781 | 1494 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 9, 1781 | 1495 | |
| CCA to CCC, Nov. 10, 1781 | 1496 | |
| CCC to Wallace, Johnson, and Muir, Dec. 12, 1781 | 1497 | |
| CCC to Samuel Chase, Jan. 25, 1782 | 1498 | |
| Samuel Chase to CCC, Jan. 28, 1782 | 1501 | |
| CCC to Samuel Chase, Feb. 3, 1782 | 1508 | |
| Samuel Chase to CCC, Feb. 11, 1782 | 1513 | |
| CCC to Samuel Chase, Feb. 15, 1782 | 1517 | |
| Anonymous to CCC, Feb. 20, 1782 | 1517 | |
| CCC to Wallace, Johnson, and Muir, Feb. 21, 1782 | 1518 | |
| Samuel Chase to CCC, Feb. 23, 1782 | 1519 | |
| CCC to the Maryland Gazette, Feb. 25, 1782 | 1519 | |
| CCA to CCC, Mar. 24, 1782 | 1520 | |
| Enclosure: CCA's Instructions to Daniel Mackenzie, Mar. 23, 1782 | 1521 | |
| CCC to Wallace, Johnson, and Muir, Apr. 18, 1782 | 1522 | |
| CCC to Wallace, Johnson, and Muir, May 11, 1782 | 1523 | |
| CCC to William Russell, June 3, 1782 | 1524 | |
| Certifications of the Will of CCA, June 5, 1782 | 1525 | |
| CCC to Wallace, Johnson, and Muir, July 9, 1782 | 1526 | |
| Appendix I | Genealogical Charts | 1529 |
| Chart A | Irish Ancestry of the Carrolls | 1530 |
| Chart B | Descendants of Anthony Carroll of Lisheenboy | 1532 |
| Chart C | Descendants of Charles Carroll of Annapolis | 1534 |
| Chart D | Descendants of Daniel Carroll of Duddington | 1536 |
| Chart E | Brooke Descendants of Elinor Hatton | 1538 |
| Chart F | Darnall Descendants of Elinor Hatton | 1540 |
| Chart G | Kin Networks: Brooke, Carroll, and Darnall | 1542 |
| Chart H | Kin Networks: Calvert, Carroll, Darnall, Sewall, and Tilghman | 1544 |
| Chart I | Kin Networks: Carroll, Digges | 1546 |
| Chart J | Descendants of Daniel Carroll I of Upper Marlboro | 1548 |
| Chart K | Dr. Charles Carroll's Line | 1550 |
| Select Bibliography for Genealogical Tables | 1551 | |
| Appendix II | Carroll Book Lists | 1553 |
| A List of French Books | 1553 | |
| A List of Books | 1556 | |
| Law Books remaining by me | 1558 | |
| A List of Eng: Books | 1559 | |
| Books Chosen by Charles Carroll of Carrollton | 1564 | |
| Miscellaneous List of Books | 1569 | |
| Appendix III | Slave Inventories | 1571 |
| A List of Negroes--on Doohoregan Manor taken in Familys with their Ages Decr. 1. 1773 | 1571 | |
| List of Negroes on Poplar Island taken 18th Feby. 1774 | 1583 | |
| List of Negroes--House-Servants at Annapolis--taken the 4 July 1774 | 1583 | |
| List of negroes at Annapolis Quarter taken 11 July 1774 | 1584 | |
| A List of Negroes at Annapolis Quarter taken the 4th. day of February 1779 | 1585 | |
| A list of negroes assessed in Annapolis 1781 | 1585 | |
| 1782 Febry A list of house Servants & their children delivered to the Assessor in Annapolis | 1586 | |
| Index | 1587 |
What People are Saying About This
Simply put, Dear Papa, Dear Charley is a splendid collection of letters that has much to tell us about the extraordinary Carroll family of Maryland. . . . At its most human and basic level, it is the moving account of a family's successes and failures over a period of more than five decades. As American history, it is an extraordinary panorama of the nation's politics, society, and economics at the founding. These volumes are a gem!—Barbara B. Oberg, Princeton University
The editors have opened up an exciting new vista on the American Revolutionary era. These superbly edited volumes illuminate, in fascinating detail, the complex and compelling connections between the history of an extraordinary family and the epochal changes that transformed Maryland and the Anglo-American world. The publication of this rich and revealing documentary edition is cause for celebration.—Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia