Posted on 09/30/2014 7:18:55 PM PDT by Salvation
Must have been one mackrel snapper on the board. ;)
;)
But Charles Carroll was not a common man. Trust me, they knew what they were doing. There are not too many great Carrolls except this family.
I will take your word on it.
When he was near death, Archbishop Carroll said, “Of those things that give me most consolation at the present moment, one is that I have always been attached to the practice of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary; that I have established it among the people under my care, and placed my diocese under her protection.”
AFEOCNPTDO
What is that, please?
In colonial America, Catholic schools were forbidden so the Carrolls and other wealthy Catholic families would quietly send their children to Europe for education, although that was against the law.
The story that Charles Carroll added the "of Carrollton" as an afterthought (when someone claimed that he wasn't risking death like the other Signers were since the British would not know which Charles Carroll had signed) is a 20th-century invention. He was in the habit of signing his name "of Carrollton" to distinguish his signature from his father's.
I meant to write “in colonial Maryland, Catholic schools were forbidden.” I don’t know if the other colonies had similar laws—but other than Pennsylvania the number of Catholics was pretty low in the other colonies.
There are a lot of Montgomery Counties, most of them named for Richard Montgomery, who died in the attack on Quebec on Dec. 31, 1775. Probably not one American in 100 knows who Richard Montgomery was.
It's an acronym.
I knew that, but only because for a brief time in my life I lived in Germantown, Maryland. :)
But what is the acronym?
Let's just say that knowledge is on a need-to-know basis.
Okay.
Here’s one for you to easily figure out: KMAYAH
“Kumbayah, Mister Alex! Y’all Are Hilarious!”
One of my paternal great grandmothers was a Carroll, descended from a group that came down from Maryland. So, I've researched the matter from a genealogical standpoint. No proof whatsoever that "my" Carrolls are the same and I'll never know due to Fairfax County, VA being a "burned county," records are lost.
But, I do know that they weren't the richest family in America, not really even close. They were well-off, certainly. But, nowhere near the descendants of Robert "King" Carter in the Northern Neck of Virginia. I'm related to them for sure, through Landon Carter. And, they were nowhere near the Rensselaers of New York.
SLBSTM
Yes, I agree. I moved all around the Nation as a child and we always learned principals and values of freedom via studying the local and State people marked from history. Don’t tell the atheists about places named after Christians in history.
How small minded does a person have to be to be afraid of a statute?
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