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Daniel Carroll Jr. was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a Maryland politician, and a plantation owner. He supported the American Revolution, served in the Confederation Congress, was
Portrait by John Wollaston, 1753–1754.
Carroll's mother Eleanor Darnall Carroll as a child, by Justus Engelhardt Kühn, c. 1710
John Carroll was an American Catholic prelate who served as the nation's first Catholic bishop, overseeing the Diocese of Baltimore, then the only diocese in the nascent United States, from 1789 to 18
Daniel Carroll
…married Eleanor Carroll, apparently a first cousin, whose great-grandparents were Daniel Carroll and Dorothy Kennedy from Ireland. His younger brother John was the first Catholic bishop in the United States (as Bishop of Baltimore, 1790) and founder of Georgetown University; his cousin Charles Carroll of…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1806
Letter of Bishop Challoner to the Maryland Jesuits informing them of the suppression of the Society of Jesus
Certificate of Carroll's episcopal consecration (1790)
Chapel at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England, where Reverend Carroll was consecrated bishop of Baltimore (1888)