Eleanor Darnall Carroll

Eleanor Darnall as a child, c.1710, painted by Justus Engelhardt Kühn.

Eleanor Darnall Carroll (1703-1796), was a wealthy heiress in colonial Maryland. She was the wife of Daniel Carroll, a politician and wealthy planter. Their son Daniel Carroll would become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Early life

Eleanor Darnall was born into a wealthy planter family in about 1703, most likely at the Woodyard, the Darnall family home in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She was the daughter of Anne Digges and Henry Darnall II. The latter was a planter whose father Henry Darnall had held a number of governmental offices in the colonial administration of Maryland. [1] As a child she was painted by the German painter Justus Engelhardt Kühn.

Family

Eleanor Darnall married Daniel Carroll, a politician and wealthy planter. The couple had six children

  • Daniel Carroll (1730 – 1796), who would become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
  • Ann Carroll (1733-1804)
  • John Carroll (1735-1815), Archbishop of Baltimore and founder of Georgetown University.
  • Eleanor (c1737-1810)
  • Mary (1742-1815)
  • Elizabeth (1745-1821)

Legacy

Darnall's Chance.

In around 1741 Eleanor Carroll and her husband sold some land to a merchant named James Wardrop. In 1742 Wardrop built the house known as Darnall's Chance which today houses the Darnall's Chance House Museum, an historic house museum which opened to the public in 1988.

Notes

  1. ↑ Biography of Eleanor Darnall Retrieved 16 August 2018

References

  • Roarke, Elizabeth,Artists of Colonial America Retrieved 16 August 2018
  • Pomerenk, Kathleen Orr, Faith In Art: Justus Engelhardt Kuhn’s Portrait Of Eleanor Darnall, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2009. Georgetown University Library, Digital Georgetown https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/553373
  • Geiger, Sister M. Virgina, Daniel Carroll II, One Man and His Descendants, 1730-1798, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 1979.
  • Huffman, Ronald, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland, A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
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