CHARLES CARROLL. CHARLES CARROLL, surnamed of Carrollton, the subject of the present sketch, and the son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth Brook, was born on the eighth of September, 1737, O. S. (twentieth September, N. S.) at Annapolis, in the state of Maryland. Charles Carroll, the son of Daniel Carroll, of Littalouna, King's county, Ireland, and of the Inner Temple, the grandfather of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was a clerk in the office of lord Powis, under the reign of James second, and left England a short time previous to the accession of King William, to further his fortunes in America. At the instance and through the influence of lord Powis, Mr. Carroll was appointed, in 1691, to succeed colonel Henry Darnell as judge and register of the land office, and agent and receiver of rents for lord Baltimore in the province of Maryland. He appears to have been a man of influence and importance in the administration of the provincial affairs, and in 1718, was one of those who were expressly exempted from any disqualification on account of religion. Charles Carroll, born in 1702, the father of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, took an active part in the affairs of the provincial government, and in the religious disputes of the |