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Charles Carroll II (1702–1782) known as Charles Carroll of Annapolis to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and lawyer.
The Charles Carroll House, with its beautiful manicured gardens on the historic Duke of Gloucester Street, was one of the Carroll family’s substantial Eighteenth-Century homes. Today it is one of Annapolis‘s landmark museum houses.
Charles Carroll House and Gardens of Annapolis, Maryland. Home to Three Generations and a Founding Father. 2024 TOUR SEASON! The Carroll House & Gardens will be open to the public June through October, on the first and second Saturday & Sunday of each month, 12pm – 4pm. We hope to see you then!
Charles Carroll (born Sept. 19, 1737, Annapolis, Md. [U.S.]—died Nov. 14, 1832, Baltimore, Md., U.S.) was an American patriot leader, the longest- surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the only Roman Catholic to sign that document.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
By 1822, the first sanctioned Catholic Church in Annapolis, St. Mary’s, was erected and built on the Carroll property. In 1826, Charles Carroll of Carrollton became the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence with the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th.
His son, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, became a wealthy planter and his grandson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, also wealthy, was the only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Description. Oil on Canvas portrait painting of Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702-1782), ca. 1712, by Justus Engelhardt Kuhn. Carroll was born in Annapolis and was the son of Charles Carroll the Settler (1661-1720), an early Maryland settler and Attorney General of the Colony, and Mary Darnall Carroll (ca. 1678-1742).
