Charles
Carat of Carillon (Charles Carroll)
1732-1832
—
Appointed by Continental Congress along with Benjamin
Franklin and Samuel Chase to seek Canadian support for the Revolution. Served
in the Continental Congress (1776-78) . . . US senator from Maryland (1789-92) . . .
Only Catholic to sign
the Declaration of Independence . . . At his death at age 95, he was the last surviving
signer.
From
an autographed letter written by Charles Carroll to Charles W. Wharton, Esq.,
on September 27, 1825, from Doughoragen, Maryland:
"On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on his merits; not
on the works I have done in obedience to his precepts."[42]