ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE SOURCES The unpublished letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Archives of the State of Maryland, printed by authority of the Legislature of the State under the direction of the Maryland Historical Society. The Calvert papers. Maryland records, Colonial and Revolutionary, County and Church, copied by Dr. Gains Marcus Brumbaugh. Ridgley's annals of Annapolis. Letters, papers and personal interviews with Mr. J. H. B. Latrobe, private secretary to Charles Carroll of Carrollton. History of Maryland, the Colonial period by John Leeds Bozman. County histories and other local histories of Maryland, and other States. Life and letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton by Miss Kate Mason Rowland. [11] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The thanks of the author for valuable suggestions, information and assistance in research work and in other ways are due and hereby tendered to Former Governor Martin H. Glynn of New York. Former Governor Edwin Warfield of Maryland. Mr. Gamble Latrobe of Baltimore, Md. Miss Virginia Scott MacTavish of Rome, Italy. Mr. John E. Semmes of Baltimore, Md. Miss Jennie M. Davis of New York. Mr. Charles Bancroft Carroll of Doughoregan and now an officer of the U. S. navy. Miss Lizzie Commerford of Middlefield, Conn. Mr. Frank L. Tolman of Albany, N. Y. Mr. George G. Champlin of Albany, N. Y. Miss Jessie F. Wheeler of Troy, N. Y. Mr. Harry G. Michener, President of The Bank of North [12] PREFACE TO THE AL LIFE OF CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON BY FORMER GOVERNOR MARTIN H. GLYNN OF NEW YORK This, in my opinion, is a book which should be in the library of every lover of American 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 far 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 |