Charles Carroll was a patriot. The only person under the Church of Rome to sign the Declaration; the only to give his address. The biggest contributor to the cause of freedom. The wealthiest of all signers. His grandfather? had planted the Carroll crest in this land after loosing all fighting for King James II (Catholic leaning) against the forces of William of Orange (Reformed Protestant) in Ireland (perhaps why my father and 2nd great grandfather were named "James") his cousin John was the first bishop under Rome of the US. Daddy told me that our kin had come out of Maryland and the family tree in the old family Bible showed Charles. I trace our nearest forefather of those days, Carey Carroll, to being born in nearby New Jersey just after the end of the Revolution in about 1786 and his son James coming to the Ohio territory adjacent to Kentucky on the Ohio River.
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