were all married to the prime nobility of the nationthe Lord Muskery, another to the great Earl of Desmon "The next Carroll m. Sara O'Bryen, dau. of the I Thurmond and niece of the Lord Clare. The next m. the Earl of Meath's dau.; and now lastly comes Carroll, who m. Dorothy, dau. of Kenedy by M O'Bryen, dau. of More Carroll of Ely and O'Neill, w for mother the dau. of the Earl of Argile in the Highl Scotland.' This Daniel Carroll had twenty sons wh presented in one troop of horse, all accoutred in habi of war, to the Earl of Ormond, together with all his for the service of King Charles the First. Most o died in foreign service, having followed the hard fate Charles the Second.' From this Daniel's many sons sumed to have sprung all the different branches of th of Carroll.

"The next in descent, and eldest son, was Daniel who had two sons, 1st Charles, and 2d John.

"Charles the 1st m. Clare Dunn, had two sons, and John, and one dau. It was the last Charles w grated to America about the beginning of the eightee tury, and settled at Annapolis, in Maryland-his John having been lost at sea.

"Charles Carroll m. Dorothy Blake, and was the Charles Carroll, afterward barrister-at-law, and Clare Carroll. Dorothy Blake was 'descended ancient family of that name in Hampshire, in Eng of the same family as Admiral Robert Blake,' who is now in the Carroll family."

THE REVEREND JOHN CARROLL was born in Upp borough, Maryland, in 1735, and was educated for t hood at the College of St. Omers, in France, and at Belgium, where he was ordained in 1769. On the sion of the Jesuits in France, he took refuge in Eng was employed by Lord Houston as the tutor of his 1773, he was a professor at Bruges, but returned to and resided with the family of the Earl of Arundel eve of the Revolution, when he returned to Americ the fortunes of his native State. He settled in city, where he spent the remainder of his life. tion for piety, learning, eloquence, and patriotis widely extended that it was thought he might exc influence over the Roman Catholic population and, therefore, in February 1776, at the request d

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tinental Congress, he accompanied his cousin Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Judge Samuel Chase, and Dr. Benjamin Franklin to Canada, on a mission from the united colonies, to solicit the co-operation of that province. In 1786, he was created Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Church for the United States. On the 15th of August 1790, at Ludworth Castle, England, he was consecrated Bishop of the See of Baltimore. He remained for several years the only Roman Catholic Bishop in this country. His diocese embraced the whole of the thirteen States and all the territories. On the 7th of July 1806, he laid the corner-stone of the Cathedral in Baltimore. In the year 1803, he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop, and discharged with fidelity his arduous and constantly increasing duties until the 3d of December 1815, when he died in the eighty-first year of his age.

CHARLES CARROLL, OF CARROLLTON, the grandson of Charles Carroll, the son of Daniel Carroll, of King's County, Ireland, was b. 20th Sept. 1737, the son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth Brook. At the age of eight years he was sent to France to be educated. He remained six years at the College of English Jesuits, at St. Omers; one year at a College of French Jesuits, at Rheims; two years at the College of Louis Grand; one year at Bourges, to study civil law, and then returned to college at Paris. In 1757 he visited London, and commenced the study of law in the Temple. He returned to Maryland in 1764, and in June 1768, m. Mary Darnall, dau. of Henry Darnall, Jr. She was spoken of "as an agreeable young lady, endowed with every accomplishment necessary to render the connubial state happy." He achieved distinction among the ablest political writers of that day, and in a controversy with Daniel Dulany, he won a reputation for wisdom and solidity of reasoning which placed him in the front rank of patriots, and decided his career for life.

In December 1774, he was appointed one of the "Committee of Correspondence for this Province," and in the following year was elected one of the "Council of Safety." He was elected a delegate from Anne Arundel County to the Convention which met 7th Dec. 1775, at Annapolis, and adjourned 18th Jan'y 1776. In Feb'y 1776, with Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Judge Samuel Chase, and Dr. John Carroll, he was appointed a Commissioner to Canada to endeavor to induce the people of that province to cooperate in the struggle for independence. When the Commissioners returned from their unsuccessful mission, Congress was debating the propriety of

a Declaration of Independence, and the situatiou was critical. The deputies from Maryland were bound by their instructions given by the Convention 12th Jan'y 1776, as follows: "We further instruct you that you do not, without the previous knowledge and approbation of the Convention of this Province, assent to any proposition to declare these colonies independent of Great Britain," and which instructions had been unanimously reiterated and confirmed 21st May 1776.

Judge Chase and Mr. Carroll were much disquieted by the emergency; apprehensive and anxious for the honor of their State, they hastened to their posts of duty.

The Convention of Maryland was in session. With burning eloquence, ably seconded by Thomas Johnson, they told their story, and pressed upon eager and willing ears the necessity of withdrawing the instructions. On the 28th of June 1776, it was unanimously resolved that the deputies from Maryland in Congress "be authorized and impowered to concur with the other united colonies, or a majority of them, in declaring the united colonies free and independent states."

On the 4th of July 1776, the following were elected deputies to represent Maryland in the Continental Congress : Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and Robert Alexander. Two days afterwards, 6th July, Maryland solemnly declared her independence.

Mr. Carroll took his seat in Congress 18th July 1776, and on the 2d of Aug. 1776, signed to the Declaration of Independence his name, CHARLES CARROLL, of CARROLLTONthat being his usual signature, and the name he had been known by since his entrance into public life to distinguish him from his elder kinsman, CHARLES CARROLL, BARRISTER. He was made a member of the Board of War, and served in Congress until 10th Nov. 1776, with marked ability.

In December 1776 he was chosen a member of the first Senate of the State of Maryland; in 1777 was returned to Congress; in 1781 was re-elected to the Senate of Maryland, and in 1788 was elected United States Senator, in Congress. In 1791 he was returned to the Senate of Maryland, and again re-elected in 1796. In 1797 he was one of the commissioners appointed to settle the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia. He continued in the Senate of Maryland until 1801, when he retired from political life.

On the 23d of April 1827, he was elected a member of the first Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,

and on the 4th of July 1828, laid the foundation-stone of that railroad. He continued to take a deep and lively interest in the progress and welfare of his native State until his death. He died on the 10th of Nov. 1832, in the 96th year of his age, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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Mr. John H. B. Latrobe, in his very interesting and exhaustive memoir of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, says, "In "1825, one of Mr. Carroll's granddaughters was married to "the Marquis of Wellesley, then Viceroy of Ireland; and it is a singular circumstance, that one hundred and forty years "after the first emigration of her ancestors to America, this "lady should become vice-queen of the country from which they fled, at the summit of a system which a more imme"diate ancestor had risked everything to destroy; or, in the "energetic and poetical language of Bishop England, 'that "in the land from which his father's father fled in fear, his daughter's daughter now reigns as Queen.' See Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol VII, p. 259.

CHARLES CARROLL, the grandfather of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, was at one time a clerk in the office of Lord Powis, in the reign of James II, and came to America before the accession (1689) of William and Mary. In 1691 he was appointed in the place of Col. Henry Darnall, Judge and Register of the Land Office, and also agent and receiver of rents for Lord Baltimore. He was a Roman Catholic, but in 1718 was expressly exempted from any disqualification on account of his religion. He d. previous to the year 1747. His son, Charles Carroll, the father of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, was b. in 1702, and d. in 1782.

CHARLES CARROLL, OF CARROLLTON, left three child., viz., Charles Carroll,-Elizabeth Carroll, who m. Richard Caton, and was the mother of Lady Wellesley, Duchess of Leeds, and Lady Stafford, and Catharine Carroll, who m. General Robert Goodloe Harper. Richard Caton d. 19th May 1845, aged 82-83. Gen. Goodloe Harper, b. 1765, d. 14th Jan'y 1825. CHARLES CARROLL, eldest son of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, m. in 1799, Harriet Chew, dau. of Hon. Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and had child., viz., Charles Carroll, Mary Carroll, who m. Richard H. Bayard, -Louisa Carroll, who m. Mr. Jackson,-Harriet Carroll, who m. Hon. John Lee, and Elizabeth Carroll who m. Dr. Richard Tucker.

CHARLES CARROLL, eldest son of Charles Ca Harriet Chew, b. in Baltimore, in July 1801, m. in 1825, Mary Diggs Lee (a granddau. of Hon. Tho Lee, Governor of Maryland, in 1792-94), and ha viz., Mary Carroll,-Charles Carroll,-Thomas Le who d. young,-Hon. John Lee Carroll,-Louisa Oswald Carroll, who d. young,-Albert Henry C 2d Thomas Lee Carroll,-Robert Goodloe Harpe and Helen Sophia Carroll.

MARY CARROLL, eldest dau. of Charles Carroll Diggs Lee, m. in 1866, Dr. Acosta, and resides in CHARLES CARROLL, son of Charles Carroll and M Lee, m. in 1858, Caroline Thompson, of Staunton,

HON. JOHN LEE CARROLL, for many years a dis member of the Senate of Maryland, and, at pres the Governor of the State, son of Charles Carroll Diggs Lee, m. 24th April 1856, Anita Phelps, dau Phelps, a leading merchant of New York, and had Charles Lee Carroll,-Mary Louisa Carroll,-Anita Royal Phelps Carroll,-Charles Carroll,-Albert I roll,-Irene Carroll,-John Lee Carroll, and Hel Mrs. Anita Phelps Carroll d. 24th March 1873.

LOUISA CARROLL, dau. of Charles Carroll and I Lee, m. in 1858, George Cavendish Tayloe, of grandson of Lord Waterpark, and had two sons and ALBERT HENRY CARROLL, Son of Charles Mary Diggs Lee, m. 4th May 1858, Mary Cor dau. of William George Read and Sophia Cathari a dau. of Col. John Eager Howard (see HOWAR child., viz., Mary Sophia,-Mary Ellinor, and Ag Albert Henry Carroll joined the army of the States and was killed in a skirmish, 7th Sept. Martinsburg, Va. Mrs. Mary Cornelia Carrol 25th June 1866, Col. James Fenner Lee, and Mary Cornelia Lee.

ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER CARROLL, son of roll and Mary Diggs Lee, m. in 1863, Miss Virginia, who d. in 1864, and in 1872 he m. Ma Frederick County, and had two sons.

HELEN CARROLL, dau. of Charles Carroll and Lee, m. in 1868, J. Oliver O'Donnell, of Baltin one son and two daus.

CHARLES CARROLL, barrister, was the grands Carroll, the son of Daniel and Dorothy Carroll, bef