Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832)
MSA SC 3520-209

Sources:

Archival sources -

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1833, Volume 42 pp. 56-105, 240-241, 296-322 [MSA C340-43, 2/29/09/043]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-181] Petition of Charles Carroll 31 December 1832; depositions 11 February 1833; amended petition 11 February 1833; bill of costs 18 March 1833 [MSA SC 4239-14-152]


BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-181] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. 10 May 1833 [MSA SC 4239-14-153]


BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-181] Petition of Charles Harper 15 May 1833; Petition of Thomas Johnson 10 June 1833; Petition of Julia A. M. Gist 14 November 1833 [MSA SC 4239-14-154] 


BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-182] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. for sale of "certain Negroes on the Folly Farm" 3 March 1835 [MSA SC 4239-14-162]


BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-182] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. for sale of "certain Negroes on Doughoragen Manor" 3 March 1835 [MSA SC 4239-14-163]


BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1834, Volume 15 pp. 1-28 [MSA CM188-15, CR 72247-1]

Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser Collection, [SC 4318-1-8], December 19, p. 2.

Votes and Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland, November Session, 1797 (Archives of Maryland Online, MSA SCM 3185), 1416.

Books -

A Patriarch and His Family in the Early Republic: The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1782-1832, 4 vols. Ronald Hoffman, and Mary Clement Jeske, and Sally D. Mason, eds., (Maryland Center for History and Culture, forthcoming).

Beirne, Francis F.  Baltimore: A Picture History 1858 - 1958.  New York:  Hastings House, 1957.

Cramm, Joetta M.  Howard County:  A Pictorial History.  Norfolk, VA:  Donning Company, 1987.

Eisenberg, Gerson G. Marylanders Who Served the Nation:  A Biographical Dictionary of Federal Officials from Maryland. Annapolis:  The Maryland State
            Archives, 1992.

Essary, Frederick J.  Maryland in National Politics from Charles Carroll to Albert C. Ritchie.  Baltimore:  John Murphy Co., 1915,1932.

Gurn, Joseph.  Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832.  New York, NY:  P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1932.

Hanley, Thomas O'Brien.  Charles Carroll of Carrollton:  The Making of a Revolutionary Gentleman.  n.pub., n.pl., 1982.

Howland, Richard Hubbard.  Architecture of Baltimore: A Pictorial History.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins Press, 1953.

Johnson, Allen and Dumas Malone, eds. Dictionary of American Biography, vol. II.  New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.

Leonard, Lewis A. Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918.

Mayer, Brantz , ed.  Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton during his Visit to Canada in 1776 as One of the Commissioners from Congress.
        n.pub., n.pl., 1876.

Papenfuse, Edward C., et al., "Charles Carroll of Carrollton," in A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789, Vol. I, A-H (Baltimore:
           The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979):  197-199.

Rowland, Kate Mason.  The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 1737-1832 with his Correspondence and Public Papers. 2 vols. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.

Scarff, John H.  Bicentenary Celebration of the Birth of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 1737 - 1937.  n.pub., n.pl., 1937.

Smith, Ellen Hart. Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Harvard University Press, 1942.

Sturdy, Harry Francis.  Charles Carroll of Carrollton: Patriot - Statesman - Man 1737 - 1937.  n.pub., n.pl., 1937?.

U. S. Congress.  Proceedings in the Senate and House of Representatives upon the Reception and Acceptance from the State of Maryland of the Statues
            of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and of John Hanson.  n.pub., n.pl., 1903.

Van Devanter, Ann C.  "Anywhere So Long As There Be Freedom":  Charles Carroll of Carrollton, His Family and His Maryland - An Exhibition.
            Baltimore:  The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.

Newspaper/Journal Articles -

Crowl, Philip A., ed.  Charles Carroll's Plan of Government, 1787 (Reprint from The American Historical Review, Vol. 46 No. 3, April 1941)
        n.pub., n.pl., 1941.

Hanley, Thomas O'Brien.  "Charles Carroll as Catalyst."  The Sun Magazine, 9 September 1973.

Jeske, Mary Clement. “Charles Carroll of Carrollton and the Enslaved Families of Doughoragen Manor in Post-revolutionary Maryland,” Maryland Historical Magazine (Winter: 2022): 185-225.

“Kate Mason Rowland,” Changemakers, Library of Virginia, accessed 15 September 2025.

Papenfuse, Edward C.  "Undelivered Defense of a Winning Cause: Charles Carroll of Carrollton's 'Remarks on the Proposed Federal Constitution.'" Maryland Historical Magazine, 71, no. 2. (1976).

Other Materials -

Guilday, Peter, Monsignor.  America's Greatest Catholic Layman, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Sermon delivered on September 19, 1937)
        n.pub., n.pl., 1937.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton Commemorative Medal, Maryland State Archives.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Biographical Files), Charles Carroll of Carrollton File, MSA SC 3520-209, 02/11/12/11.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Charles Carroll of Carrollton Family Papers Collection), MSA SC 3498.

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