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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carroll , Charles , of Carrollton 1737 -1832 (search)
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton 1737-1832
signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Annapolis, Md., Sept. 20, 1737.
His family were wealthy Roman Catholics,
Charles Carroll. the first appearing in America at the close of the seventeenth century.
He was educated at St. Omer's and at a Jesuit college at Rheims; and studied law in France and at the Temple, London.
He returned to America in 1764, when he found the colonies agitated by momentous political questions, into which he soon entered— a writer on the side of the liberties of the people.
He inherited a vast estate, and was considered one of the richest men in the colonies.
Mr. Carroll was a member of one of the first vigilance committees established at Annapolis, and a member of the Provincial Convention.
Early in 1776 he was one of a committee appointed by Congress to visit Canada to persuade the Canadians to join the other colonies in resistance to the measures of Parliament.
His colleagues were Dr. Fran
Chase, Samuel 1741-
Jurist; born in Somerset county, Md., April 17, 1741; admitted to the bar in 1761; entered on practice at Annapolis, and soon rose to distinction.
He was twenty years a member of the colonial legislature; was a strong opposer of the Stamp Act; a member of the Committee of Correspondence; and a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-79). In 1776 he was a fellow-commissioner of Franklin and Carroll to seek an alliance with the Canadians, and was efficient in changing the sentiments of Maryland in favor of independence, so as to authorize him and his colleagues to vote for the Declaration, which he signed.
In 1783 Mr. Chase was sent to England, as agent for Maryland, to redeem a large sum of money intrusted to the Bank of England, $650,000 of which was finally recovered.
From 1791 to 1796 he was chief-justice of his State, and was a warm supporter of the administrations of Washington and Adams.
In the session of Congress in the early part of 1804, it wa
Chesapeake,
The name of a famous United States frigate that will always be memorable because of her interest-absorbing career.
In the spring of 1807 a small British squadron lay (as they had lately) in American waters, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, watching some French frigates blockaded at Annapolis.
Three of the crew of one of the British vessels, Melampus, and one of another, Halifax, had deserted, and enlisted on board the Chesapeake, lying at the Washington navy-yard.
The British minister made a formal demand for their surrender.
The United States government refused compliance, because it was ascertained that two of them (colored) were natives of the United States, and there was strong presumptive evidence that the third one was, likewise.
The commodore of the British squadron took the matter into his own hands.
the Chesapeake, going to sea on the morning of June 22, 1807, bearing the pennant of Commodore Barron, was intercepted by the British frigate Leopard, whos
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Claiborne , or Clayborne , William 1589 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States