Polly Carroll Caton
(1770-1846)
BIRTH
September 2, 1770
PLACE
Annapolis, Province of Maryland, British America
NAME
Mary Carroll
DEATH
November 14, 1846
PLACE
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Charles Carroll
(1737-1832)
MOTHER
Mary Darnall Carroll
(1749-1782)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Polly
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CATHOLIC
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AWARDS
Mary “Polly” Carroll Caton (1770–1846) was a daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. She married English merchant Richard Caton in 1787 and raised four daughters at Brooklandwood and in Baltimore. Her father put property in trust for her as her husband struggled financially. In 1834 she traveled to Britain, visited her daughters and underwent cataract surgery. She later lived at the Carroll Mansion and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery.
EARLY LIFE
Polly Carroll Caton was born on Sep 2, 1770. 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 Polly Carroll Caton 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. Polly Carroll Caton died on Nov 14, 1846. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Polly Carroll Caton died on Nov 14, 1846, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Mary “Polly” Carroll Caton was a daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. She married English merchant Richard Caton in 1787 and raised four daughters at Brooklandwood and in Baltimore. Her father put property in trust for her as her husband struggled financially. In 1834 she traveled to Britain, visited her daughters and underwent cataract surgery. She later lived at the Carroll Mansion and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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