HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 
1847.  Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, p. 229 
[Carroll county].

This county received its name in honor of CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrolton, 
one of the signers of the declaration of Independence, and the last of 
that immortal band of patriots who descended to the tomb.  Mr. Carroll 
was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 8th of September, 1737, O. S.  
He received his literary education in France, and studied law in 
England.  In 1764, he returned to Maryland, a finished scholar and an 
accomplished gentleman. He married in 1768.  He soon became a 
distinguished advocate of popular rights, and ultimately an ardent and 
devoted friend of the independence of the American colonies.  At one 
time the delegates from Maryland in the continental congress were 
instructed to vote against the declaration of independence; but through 
his influence the decision was reversed, and under new instructions on 
the 4th of July, 1776, the votes of the Maryland delegation were given 
for independence.  Mr. Carroll having been appointed a delegate, on the 
18th of July took his seat in Congress.  On the same day a secret 
resolution was adopted, directing the declaration to be engrossed on 
parchment, and signed by all the members, which was accordingly done on 
the 2d of August.  As Mr. Carroll had not given a vote on the adoption 
of that instrument, he was asked by the president if he would sign it; 
"most willingly," he replied, and immediately affixed his name to that 
"record of glory," which has endeared him to his country, and rendered 
his name immortal.  He subsequently aided in the formation of the 
constitution of Maryland, was a member of congress, a member of the 
state senate, and a member of the senate of the United States.  He 
retired from public employments in 1801, and spent the remainder of his 
days in private life.  On the 14th of November, 1832, at the advanced 
age of 95, he was gathered to this fathers.
	An ancedote is told of Carroll, illustrative of the fearlessness 
and firmness of the man, which may not be out of place here.  
Immediately after he placed his name to the declaration of independence, 
one of his friends jocularly remarked that if the British got hold of 
him, they would not know whether it were he, or the Charless Carroll of 
Massachusetts, who had signed the declaration; consequently, they would 
be at a loss which to hang as the rebel.  "In order, says he, "that 
there may be no mistake about that, I will save them the trouble of 
hanging two of us," and instantly affixed his residence to his name, and 
by which he was ever afterwards known as "Charles Carroll of 
Carrollton."

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