Henry Carroll (lawyer)

Henry Carroll (1772 – 29 February 1820) was a Colonial lawyer and statesman who served as secretary for U.S. House of Representative Henry Clay.

Henry Carroll
Born	1772 Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland
Died	February 29, 1820 Franklin, Howard County, Missouri
Nationality	Colonial America
Occupation	Colonial Lawyer
Known for	Treaty of Ghent Courier for Colonial America
Notable work	Colonial Statesman Missouri Territory Public Lands Registrar Secretary to Colonial Congressman Henry Clay
Parent(s)	Charles Carroll of Bellevue Ann Sprigg Carroll
Relatives	Charles Carroll the Settler Charles Carroll of Annapolis Charles Carroll the Barrister Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Biography

Henry Carroll was the eldest of eight children to Charles Carroll of Bellevue (1767-1823) and Ann Sprigg Carroll (1769-1837) to include a brother Charles H. Carroll originating from Washington County, Maryland.[1][2] In 1814, Charles Carroll of Bellevue was the proprietor of the Dumbarton House which served as a brief refuge for Dolley Madison during the freedom flight from the White House prior to the onslaught of the British Army redcoats arson offensive.[3][4]

Henry was a lineal descendant of Charles Carroll the Settler, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, Charles Carroll the Barrister, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton who signed the Declaration of Independence for the Colony of Maryland in 1776.

Signing of Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814

From August 1814 to December 24, 1814, Henry Carroll accompanied a peace commission from Colonial America to Ghent for negotiations concerning the Treaty of Ghent seeking an end to the War of 1812. Henry was appointed courier for the delivery of the peace treaty to James Madison for ratification by Colonial America. On January 2, 1815, Anthony St. John Baker and Henry Carroll embarked the British sloop ship HMS Favorite in London sailing under a flag of truce to Colonial America with a distant anchoring at Sandy Hook peninsula on February 11, 1815. After his arrival in Lower New York Bay, Henry boarded a post chaise granting an arrival in Washington City on February 14, 1815. The treaty was delivered to President Madison at a temporary Executive Mansion better known as The Octagon House.[5][6] President Madison presented the Treaty of Ghent to the United States Senate on February 16, 1815 where the peace treaty was unanimously approved ending British impressment and the War of 1812.

In 1820, Henry Carroll was dwelling in the Missouri Territory near Franklin, Missouri. Mr. Carroll served as a federal registrar of public lands within the Missouri territory.[7] Henry had a dispute with Richard Gentry concerning his governance of land patents and territorial revenue where his life expired on Tuesday, February 29, 1820.[8]

See also

Jacob Barker	Paul Jennings
Burning of Washington	Lansdowne portrait
Chesapeake Bay Flotilla	Josiah Meigs
Flotilla Service Act of 1814	Jean Pierre Sioussat

Colonial America Peace Treaty Commission at Ghent, United Netherlands

John Quincy Adams	Albert Gallatin
James A. Bayard, Sr.	Christopher Hughes
Henry Clay	Jonathan Russell

Grievances and Origins of the War of 1812

Colonial Loyalist	Non-Intercourse Act (1809)
Embargo Act of 1807	Opposition to the War of 1812 in the United States
Hartford Convention	Origins of the War of 1812

References

1. "Charles Carroll (of Bellevue) Papers". River Campus Libraries ~ Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation. University of Rochester.
2. McNamara, Robert F.; Barnes, Joseph W. (October 1980). "Charles Carroll of Bellevue Co-Founder of Rochester" (PDF). Rochester History. Rochester Public Library. XLII (4).
3. "Dolley Madison ~ A First Lady Flees to the Sanctuary of Dumbarton House". DumbartonHouse.org. The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America.
4. "Flight of the Madisons". WhitehouseHistory.org. White House Historical Association.
5. Updyke, Frank Arthur (1915). "The Diplomacy of the War of 1812" [Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty]. Google Books. Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 358–398. OCLC 8138622.
6. Updyke, Frank Arthur (1915). "The Diplomacy of the War of 1812" [Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty]. Internet Archive. Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 358–398. OCLC 8138622.
7. "Letter of February 1820 from Charles Carroll to Josiah Meigs" [Territorial Papers - Louisiana-Missouri Territory 1815-1821, Volume XV]. HathiTrust.org. U.S. National Archives & Records Service. February 24, 1820. pp. 591–593.
8. "Letter of March 1820 from Charles Carroll to Josiah Meigs" [Territorial Papers - Louisiana-Missouri Territory 1815-1821, Volume XV]. HathiTrust.org. U.S. National Archives & Records Service. March 11, 1820. p. 594.

Reading Bibliography

• Pieczynski, Christopher (February 11, 2015). "Rediscovering the Treaty of Ghent" [A Paper Presented to the Norfolk Historical Society]. Academia.edu.
• King, Quentin Scott (2014). Henry Clay and the War of 1812. Google Books. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476613901. OCLC 883896030.
• Hickey, Donald R. (2012). The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Google Books (Bicentennial ed.). University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252078378. OCLC 794968648.
• White, Patrick C.T. (1965). "A Nation on Trial: America and the War of 1812". Internet Archive. John Wiley & Sons. OCLC 504120451.
• "Letters Relating to the Negotiations at Ghent, 1812-1814". Internet Archive. American Historical Review. October 1914.
• 63rd U.S. Congress (December 5, 1913). "Celebration of the Treaty of Ghent ~ H.R. 9302". Internet Archive. U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Lossing, Benson John (1869). "The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812". Google Books. Harper & Brothers. OCLC 951294.
• Lossing, Benson John (1869). "The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812". Internet Archive. Harper & Brothers. OCLC 951294.
• Goodrich, Charles A.; Augustus, Charles (1833). "A History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, to the Present Time" [Period X - Madison’s Administration]. Internet Archive. H.F. Sumner & Co. pp. 398–467.
• Lowell, John (1812). "Mr. Madison's War: A Dispassionate Inquiry into the Reasons Alleged by Mr. Madison for Declaring an Offensive and Ruinous War against Great-Britain". Internet Archive. Russell & Cutler.

External links

• Carroll, Henry (March 5, 1818). "Henry Carroll to James Madison, March 5, 1818". The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress. United States Library of Congress.
• Carroll, Henry (March 5, 1818). "To James Madison from Henry Carroll, 5 March 1818". National Archives Founders Online. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
• Madison, James (March 11, 1818). "James Madison to Henry Carroll, March 11, 1818". The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress. United States Library of Congress.
• Madison, James (March 11, 1818). "From James Madison to Henry Carroll, 11 March 1818". National Archives Founders Online. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
• Graves, Leroy; Porter, Heather; Howlett, F. Carey. "The Ghent Treaty Box" [Retreating the Treaty Box: Dealing with Deteriorated Materials and Aged Acrylic Consolidant in an Historic Document Box] (PDF). Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation.
• Homren, Wayne. "The Treaty of Ghent Medals". CoinBooks.org. The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS).
• "Treaty of Ghent ~ Henry Carroll Papers". Heritage Auctions.
• "America Under Fire: Aftermath" [Finale of War of 1812 ~ Colonial America Second Revolutionary War with Great Britain]. WhitehouseHistory.org. White House Historical Association.
• Fleming, Thomas (March 2010). "When Dolley Madison Took Command of the White House". History. Smithsonian Magazine.
• Charles Carroll, Farmer & Statesman at Find a Grave
• Ann Sprigg Carroll, Widow of Charles Carroll of Bellvue at Find a Grave