What A Little-Known Colonial Pamphlet Tells Us About the Constitution

The Independence Institute ^ | 11/11/11 | Rob Natelson

[teeman8r]

john carroll of carrollton?

[Verginius Rufus]

Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

The story that he added "of Carrollton" because someone said that he was not risking his life, because the king would not know which Charles Carroll was the signer, seems to have been invented around the 1940s. In fact he normally signed his name that way because his father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, was still alive.

John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the US, was his cousin. John Carroll was a brother of the Daniel Carroll who was a signer of the US Constitution.

[teeman8r]

thanks for that... yes charles carroll...

thanks for clearing it up for me... a perry moment.

t

[Verginius Rufus]

Today is the anniversary of Charles Carroll's death, in 1832.

I knew my great-uncle who died in 1980--he knew his grandfather who was 12 years old when Charles Carroll died.