Charles Carroll of Homewood
(1775-1825)
BIRTH
March 2, 1775
PLACE
NAME
Charles Carroll
DEATH
April 3, 1825
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Charles Carroll
(1737-1832)
MOTHER
Mary Darnall Carroll
(1749-1782)
SISTER
Polly Carroll Caton
(1770-1846)
SISTER
Catharine Carroll Harper
(1778-1861)
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION UNCERTAIN
CATHOLIC (EARLIER AFFILIATION; LATER LEFT CHURCH)
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AWARDS
Charles Carroll of Homewood (1775–1825) was the son of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. He married Harriet Chew in 1800 and built Homewood near Baltimore, supported by his father’s wealth and enslaved labor. Extravagant spending and alcohol dependency strained both his marriage and his relations with his father. The house is now a Johns Hopkins museum, interpreting the Carroll family and enslaved Conner and Ross households.
EARLY LIFE
Charles Carroll of Homewood was born on Mar 2, 1775. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Charles Carroll of Homewood is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Charles Carroll of Homewood died on Apr 3, 1825. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Charles Carroll of Homewood died on Apr 3, 1825. Charles Carroll of Homewood was the son of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. He married Harriet Chew in 1800 and built Homewood near Baltimore, supported by his father’s wealth and enslaved labor. Extravagant spending and alcohol dependency strained both his marriage and his relations with his father. The house is now a Johns Hopkins museum, interpreting the Carroll family and enslaved Conner and Ross households. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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