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Daniel Carroll of Duddington

A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by David Mathisen
Revised and expanded by Brian McGuire

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2008

Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html

Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2008

Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008075

Table of Contents

Collection Summary

Selected Search Terms

Personal Names

Organizations

Subjects

Locations

Occupations

Administrative Information

Provenance:

Processing History:

Copyright Status:

Microfilm:

Preferred Citation:

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement of the Papers

Container List

Collection Summary

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Personal Names

Organizations

Subjects

Locations

Occupations

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Daniel Carroll, landowner and businessman, were deposited and then given to the Library of Congress in 1963 and 1967 by Mrs. Harry G. Meem and her daughter, Ann Meem Rogers, descendants of the Carroll family. Other gifts and purchases were received between 1920 and 1990, including gifts from Frank Hannegan in 1983 and 1985.

Processing History:

The papers of Daniel Carroll were arranged and described in 1986-1987. Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 2001 and the finding aid was revised in 2001 and 2008. Portions of the collection are described in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, vol. 21, July 1964, pp. 191-194, and in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1983, pp. 6-10.

Copyright Status:

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Daniel Carroll is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Microfilm:

A microfilm edition of these papers is available on eight reels from the Library's Photoduplication Service for purchase subject to the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). The microfilm edition may also be requested on interlibrary loan through the Library's Loan Division. An earlier finding aid is reproduced at the beginning of reel one.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Daniel Carroll Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Daniel Carroll of Duddington (1764-1849) span the years 1662-1920, with the bulk of the material concentrated between 1791 and 1868. The collection relates principally to the real estate and business interests of Carroll, an influential Washington, D.C., landowner whose property included Duddington Manor on the Anacostia River and much of what was to become Capitol Hill. The papers are organized in the following series: Family Correspondence, General Correspondence, Financial Records, Miscellany, an Addition, and Oversize.

The collection deals with the surveying and selling of lots and squares in the new federal city and in Baltimore, Maryland, with lawsuits and the collection of rents, and with Carroll's large holdings in the Baltimore Iron Works and the Hockley Forge. Most of the material dated after Carroll's death in 1849 concerns the settlement of his estate by his daughters, Ann C. Carroll and Maria Carroll Fitzhugh.

Principal correspondents from Daniel Carroll's lifetime include his uncle, Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek, one of the early commissioners of the District of Columbia; Charles Carroll (d. 1820) of Belle Vue; and Charles Carroll (1737-1832) of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Other correspondents are Richard Brent, William Leigh Brent, Thomas Emory, James Greenleaf, William Alexander Hammond, Christopher Johnson, and John Merryman. Correspondents from the period after Carroll's death include George Appleby, Ann C. Carroll, Richard H. Clarke, John Sterrett Gittings, William Alexander Gordon, William Hickey, James Birseye McPherson, and Thos. E. Waggaman.

Arrangement of the Papers

This collection is arranged in six series:

• Family Correspondence, 1758-1830
• General Correspondence, 1662-1910
• Financial Records, 1752-1906
• Miscellany, 1702-1920
• Addition, 1820, n.d.
• Oversize, 1702-1872

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