| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782. By Ronald Hoffman with Sally D. Mason. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxx, 429 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2556-5.)

Charles Carroll (1737–1832) is chiefly remembered nowadays—insofar as he is remembered at all—as the sole Roman Catholic signatory of the Declaration of Independence. As such he has been the recipient of a number of earnest, indeed pious, biographies, but the definitive work on this important revolutionary figure has hitherto been lacking. That need has now been met in triumphant fashion by Ronald Hoffman with Sally D. Mason, who have not only written a fine study of Charles but also contributed a transgenerational biography of the Carrolls of Maryland, tracing the family's origins from substantial, and then dispossessed, landowners in the Irish midlands to wealthy tobacco planters and merchant princes in Maryland. Hoffman has used to good effect the extensive, though uneven, Carroll archives, and he has also trolled to good effect through the less voluminous material relating to the family in Ireland. The result is a book that is a contribution both to early modern Irish history and to the history of colonial Maryland. . . .

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