Elizabeth Brooke Carroll
(1709-1761)
BIRTH
1709
PLACE
Prince George's, Maryland
NAME
Elizabeth Brooke
DEATH
1761
PLACE
Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland
FAMILY
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Elizabeth Brooke Carroll (1709–1761) was Clement Brooke and Jane Sewall’s daughter and the mother of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton. She and Charles Carroll of Annapolis maintained a long partnership before marriage in 1757, when their son was twenty. Her letters to him survive in the Carroll papers, and John Wollaston painted her portrait in 1753–1754. Archive research documents her letters and unusual marriage, distinguishing the several Charles Carrolls.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Brooke Carroll was born 1709. The external genealogical record identifies Clement Brooke and Jane Sewall as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Brooke Carroll is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Elizabeth Brooke Carroll died 1761. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Brooke Carroll died in 1761, in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland. Elizabeth Brooke Carroll was Clement Brooke and Jane Sewall’s daughter and the mother of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton. She and Charles Carroll of Annapolis maintained a long partnership before marriage in 1757, when their son was twenty. Her letters to him survive in the Carroll papers, and John Wollaston painted her portrait in 1753–1754. Archive research documents her letters and unusual marriage, distinguishing the several Charles Carrolls. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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