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.