Evening star., 1931-12-27

Eleanor Carroll, re.i-t Of Daniel Carroll, Esq
She died on the third day of February in the
year 1876, aged 90" A more recent marker
erected to her memory, ke5ides giving the in
formation Sn the ether stone, says: Mother of
Archbishop Carl" and beneath: Mere Rev.
John Carroll built the lst ST. Johns IVA: was
made first Bishop CT Baltimore, $780, Arch
bishop 1903"
A S before stated, the Bishop and Daniel Car
\ roll of Ro,k Creek the commissioner
were brothers. John was rot only Bishop of
Baltimore, bat he vas TIE first Catholic Bishop
ordained in the new world. He was edu2ated
for the priesthood abroad, and according to
Virginia King Frye: In 1774 when the Rev.
John Carroll retained to America a priest it
is not believed, says Col. Campbell that there
public Cathoic Church in all of Mary
land st Peters in E, E,ltimore had been begun
but never finished, being closed by the authori-
ties And it not until 1916 that the ban
against public Catholic worship removed.
1t is not to be inferred from this, however,
that CathoNcity crushed cut. nor Cath
oc worship abolished The we'll -to-do Cath
oics of that period had private chapels in
their homes upon their large estates and
here the family and its many rctainers. would
gather for service whenever faithful pastor
came that way in the ministry of his duties.
OF these early private chapels in the vicinity
Ol Lie PRESENT City OF WdSiHl SUOn are KNOWN
to have been three: Queens Chapel, part of
the large estate of Richard Queen, Esq. situ-
ated amid the wooded hills Of Langdon: the
Capitol Hill Chapel of C-rn Abbey, on the Dud
dington estate and one in the manor house
of Motley Young near the present corner of
Tenth and G streets southwest. where Father
Dewitt professor of history at Georgetown Col
le-ye. says public mass first said in WASH
ngton, after it was permitted
0L7otbnr 1ol,, rorrou Eod,,r tb;e condition
of Catholicity in 1874, began his ministry from
his own home, near Rock Creek in the vicinity
of Forest Glen. Here his Jealous mother had
maintained small private chapel for her
own family use and this the nucleus of
the present st. John Church.
COME men know more of their genealogy
- than do their bicgrSphers, and SO, what
Daniel Carroll of Rock Greek has to say of
his family connections should be of special
value to those interested in the Maryland Car
rolls. This, in part, is what he wrote to James
Carroll of Ireland In 1852:
Il have a named Daniel about 10 years
old and a daughter named Mary about years
old. The lady I married is daughter of
Daniel Carroll, of Charles Carroll, Esq,
OF Littertone who came from Ireland and set
tied in this country. Two of his sons
survived out of great many children-Charles
and Daniel-the latter my wifeS father, who
died in the year 1874 and left three children,
Charles, E. w. (my wife), and Mary. Charles
inherits about 600 pounds per annunl-Will not
probably marry and Mary is married to one Mr.
Ignatius Digges. Charles Carroll Esq, eldest
brother to my wife's father, is living and is
worth about 100000 pounds and is the second
richest man in our province D." My eldest
sister, Ann, is well married to one Mr.. Robert
Brent in Virginia, province to the northward
of this, divided by the river Potomac. He
lives about 60 miles from us. They have one
child, named George. My brother John was