America, animated alone by the pure spured of Christianity, and still conducting them. selves as the faithful subjects of our free Government, enjoy every temporal and spuritual filicity.

erties they have secured to my country may be perpetuated to remotest posterity and extended to the whole family of men.

CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON.

August 2, 1826.

Only a month before he had received the news of the death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. His friends were fearful of the consequences of the shock which this news might produce. But he heard it with the same spirit of Christian philosophy that had sustained him all through life, and survived more than six years. And these were not years of despondency or of an old man sitting around waiting for the end to come. They were years of interest and activity. He met people, discussed events, transacted business and aided in promoting public enterprises. Until the last year of his life he walked, rode, drove and went in his boat wherever interest or inclination called him. He spent most of the time with his daughter but made frequent visits and transacted much business at the Manor.

On Wednesday 14th of November 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton passed away. He died at the house of his daughter on Pratt Street, Baltimore, in what was afterwards called Old town.

It was towards sundown. The weather was very cold. In a large room, his bedroom, he sat in an easy chair before an open fireplace. On a table were blessed candles, an antique bowl of holy water and a crucifix. By his side, Rev. Jno. C. Chance, President of St. Mary's College, in rich robes offered the last rites. On each side of his chair knelt a daughter and grandchildren. In the rear were three or four old negro servants kneeling in reverence.

The assembly made a picture never to be forgotten.

The venerable patriot went through the ceremony with evident pleasure and refusing nourishment said “This supplies all the wants of Nature. I desire no food." He was placed in bed. It was after midnight when he passed away.

His body reposes in the chapel at Doughoregan Manor. On the gospel side of the altar is a monument erected by order of the late Charles Carroll, grandson of the signer and father of Governor John Lee Carroll. The work was executed by Mr. Bartholomew in Rome, in 1853.

The city, the state and the nation mourned. There were memorial meetings, resolutions, letters and sermons of sympathy that would make volumes. From the faithful servants at Doughoregan Manor to the President of the United States there came expressions of sorrow and tributes of admiration and love.

In 1868 the Congress of the United States invited each state to send to Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington statues of two of its citizens that it most desired to honor and whose fame it would help perpetuate in this way. The State of Maryland selected Charles Carroll of Carrollton as its first choice under the terms of this invitation.

The legislature made an ample appropriation, the work was artistically done and the Statue of Charles Carroll of Carrollton in the act of signing the Declaration of Independence stands in Statuary Hall surrounded by others who have contributed to the founding and upbuilding of this Republic.

But strange as it may appear, in an assemblage of counterfeit presentments of the country's great men, selected by each of the states in response to such invitation, Mr. Carroll stands in the company of but four other signers and one of these is John Hanson from his own state of Maryland.

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE CARROLLS OF THE PAST AND OF TO-DAY

The history of the Carroll family is an emphatic contradiction of the oft told story that an American family runs out" in about the third or fourth generation.

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The Carrolls have been strong men and women intellectually, morally and physically through all these years. The first Charles Carroll who came to America from Kings County was a man powerful in intellect and vigorous as well as successful in the accomplishment of his purposes. The archives show that Charles Carroll, the Attorney-General, was one of the most influential men in the Province, who founded the city of Baltimore, introduced the manufacture of iron and accomplished many things for the good of the people. He lived to see his son the Signer become one of the leading and most useful men in the Colonies, and himself occupied important public position in his 75th year. Of the Signer himself, these pages have told an inadequate but fair and truthful story.

Governor John Lee Carroll was one of the ablest and best men the State of Maryland ever produced. He was the Centennial Governor of the Commonwealth, and no State of the Union in 1876 had a chief executive of whom her citizens could be or were more justly proud.

Mr. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, head of the family, is a man of the finest social and business qualifications, and is a liberal contributor of money and effort to every worthy cause. He is much in

France of late, greatly to the advantage of every work in which his countrymen are interested.

Mr. Philip Acosta Carroll is now serving his country as captain in the Aviation service of the American Expeditionary Force in France. He is a brother of the present Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Mr. Charles Bancroft Carroll, the youngest grownup member of the family, is now serving his country as an officer in the United States Navy.

FROM AN OLD RECORD

CHARLES CARROLL (alias O'Carroll), second son of Daniel O'Carroll of Litterluna, was of the Inner Temple, London; emigrated to Maryland, 1688; and dying in 1747, he left issue:

Charles Carroll of Doughoregan Manor, Howard County, Md., b. 1702; d. 1782; Attorney-General of Maryland. He m. Elizabeth Brooke, and had a son:

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md., b. 1737, d. 1832; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. He m., in 1768, Mary, daugther of Henry Darnall, Jr., and d. 1833. He left issue:

1. Charles Carroll, of whom presently.

2. Mary, m. Richard Caton of Maryland. They had four daughters: (1) Marianne, who m., 1st, Robert Patterson; 2dly, Oct. 25, 1825, Richard Colley, Marquis of Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Gov. Gen. of India, and elder brother of Arthur, Duke of Wellington. (2) Elizabeth, m. Baron Stafford. (3) Louisa Katherine, m. 1st Sir Felton Bathhurst Hervey, Baronet; 2dly, 1828, Francis Godolphin D'Arcy, seventh Duke of Leeds. (4) Emily, m. John Mactavish, British Consul in Baltimore, father of Charles Carroll Mactavish, who married a daughter of Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. A.