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Doughoregan Manor Plantation, Howard County, Maryland

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Doughoregan (pronounced doe-RAY-gen) Manor Plantation was created on land patented in 1702 to Charles Carroll I, in what was then Anne Arundel Co, MD. Due to county re-formations, Doughoregan Manor Plantation now sits in Howard Co, MD. This plantation stayed in the Carroll family long past the Civil War.[1]

A brick plantation house was built by Charles Carroll II in 1727 and was enlarged by Charles Carroll V in 1832. It was the home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton III,[2] the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. This plantation housed hundreds of enslaved persons throughout the years.

The Carroll family owned a number of properties besides Doughoragen Manor:[3]

  • Poplar Island
  • Annapolis Quarter
  • Duke of Gloucester Street house in Annapolis

Owners

Slaves

Various slave inventories were located in the Charles Carroll Family Papers and then published in the book Dear Papa Dear Charley[6] In 1773-74, 330 slaves lived on the ten quarters that composed Doughoragen Manor, the Carroll's principal plantation.[3]

Charles Carroll III, called Charles Carroll of Carrollton, died in 1832. After his death 213 enslaved persons were named in his probate papers in one large group. It is unknown which of the properties they were living on. However, the majority were living on Doughoregan Plantation.[7]

For more information please see:

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughoregan_Manor
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton
  3. 3.0 3.1 https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539656.pdf
    • p.339
  4. Inventories: "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999"
    Catalog: Inventories Books 4-5 1690-1746
    Image path: Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999 > Baltimore > Inventories 1716-1740 vol 5 > image 9 of 275
    FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GTBN-S3R2 (accessed 10 May 2022)
    • 1722 inventory, he grew tobacco
  5. Baltimore Sun https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-03-19-0603100043-story.html
    • according to Richard S. Dunn in the William and Mary Quarterly.
  6. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dear_Papa_Dear_Charley/Xix3AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Dear+Papa+Dear+Charley+appendix+III&dq=Dear+Papa+Dear+Charley+appendix+III&printsec=frontcover Hoffman, Ronald., Mason, Sally D.., Carroll, Charles., Darcy, Eleanor S.. Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America. United Kingdom: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, and the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, 2001.
    • Appx III, p.1571
  7. Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999: "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999"
    Catalog: Orphan's Court proceedings (Baltimore County, Maryland) 1777-1850 ; index 1777-1857 Books 15-17, 1829-1836
    Image path: Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999 > Baltimore > Orphans' Court proceedings 1832-1834 vol 16 > image 96 of 219
    FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YM6-QVK (accessed 10 May 2022)




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