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Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this monumental study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's determination to triumph without compromising lineage and faith. Ronald Hoffman peels back layer after layer of Carroll family history, from dispossession in Ireland to prosperity and prominence in America. Driven to emigrate by England's devastating anti-Catholic policies, the first Carroll brought to Maryland an iron determination to reconstitute his family and fortune. He found instead an increasingly militant Protestant society that ultimately disenfranchised Catholics and threatened their wealth and property. Confronting religious antagonisms like those that had destroyed their Irish ancestors, this Carroll and his descendants founded a fortune--and a dynasty that risked everything by allying with the American Revolutionary cause. Meeting each crisis with a tenacious will to survive and prevail, the Carrolls earned an esteemed place in the new nation. Hoffman balances private lives against their contentious public role in American history. The journey from Irish rebels to American revolutionaries shaped and shattered the Carrolls--and then remade them into one of the first families of the Republic.… (altro)
PuddinTame: Sisters of Fortune continues the story of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, while focusing on the daughters of his elder surviving daughter, Mary Carroll Caton: Marianne, Elizabeth (Bess), Louisa, and Emily.
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Hoffman and Mason have done an enormous amount of work, and I would expect this to be a definitive biography of the first three generations of American Carrolls. This is a very scholarly work. The book goes back to trace the fortunes of the Carroll family through as Irish chieftains. Charles Carroll the Settler, the first to emigrate to Maryland, moved there in hopes of a better situation for himself as a Catholic, only to be disappointed as the proprietary government, originally intended to create a haven for Catholics, was overthrown, and the later proprietors converted to Anglicanism. The Carrolls, and other Catholics, were able to become very wealthy in Maryland, but always had to live in fear of legal disabilities until the American Revolution put an end to them, if not to social disabilities. I am not sure if that is why the story pretty much ends with American independence, but I found that cutoff rather disappointing. Readers may want to seek out another biography of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, but it is unlikely that any other book will give them a better look at the earliest roots of the Carrolls.
Hoffman has particularly focussed on the situation of the Carrolls as Irish Catholics, and he also has a great interest in the details of their finances. Personally, I thought this made for rather dry reading, but different readers have different interest, so I don't note this as a fault. ( )
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In memory of my mother Ethel Lubin Hoffman who, like the ghost of the Slieve Bloom Mountains loved a good story
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This book evolved from the persistence in my mind of a place--Ireland. (Preface)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the only Roman Catholic to affix his name to the Declaration of Independence and, following the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, as the sole surviving signer of that seminal document. (Introduction)
The Slieve Bloom Mountains meander for a distance of some fifteen miles along the southeastern border of County Offaly in the Irish midlands. (Main text)
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Worthy heir to the grand legacy born of the mythic memory and relentless determination of his Gaelic forebears, Charles Carroll of Carrollton had gained the summit, but he stood upon that grand pinnacle deeply and profoundly alone. (Main text)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this monumental study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's determination to triumph without compromising lineage and faith. Ronald Hoffman peels back layer after layer of Carroll family history, from dispossession in Ireland to prosperity and prominence in America. Driven to emigrate by England's devastating anti-Catholic policies, the first Carroll brought to Maryland an iron determination to reconstitute his family and fortune. He found instead an increasingly militant Protestant society that ultimately disenfranchised Catholics and threatened their wealth and property. Confronting religious antagonisms like those that had destroyed their Irish ancestors, this Carroll and his descendants founded a fortune--and a dynasty that risked everything by allying with the American Revolutionary cause. Meeting each crisis with a tenacious will to survive and prevail, the Carrolls earned an esteemed place in the new nation. Hoffman balances private lives against their contentious public role in American history. The journey from Irish rebels to American revolutionaries shaped and shattered the Carrolls--and then remade them into one of the first families of the Republic.
Hoffman has particularly focussed on the situation of the Carrolls as Irish Catholics, and he also has a great interest in the details of their finances. Personally, I thought this made for rather dry reading, but different readers have different interest, so I don't note this as a fault. ( )