Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776, as One of the Commissioners from Congress

by Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll ( 1737 – 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and Confederation Congress and later as first United States Senator for Maryland. He was the only Catholic and the longest-lived (and last surviving) signatory of the Declaration of Independence, dying at the age of 95.

In early 1776, the Congress sent him on a three-man diplomatic mission to Canada, in order to seek assistance from French Canadians in the confrontation with Britain. Carroll was an excellent choice for such a mission, being fluent in French and a Roman Catholic, and therefore well suited to negotiations with the French-speaking Catholics of Quebec. He was joined in the commission by Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and his cousin John Carroll. The commission did not accomplish its mission, primarily because of the failure of the concurrent invasion of Canada.

This book originally published by by John Murphy, in 1876, has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

112 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 12, 2013

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