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Daniel Carroll II of Rock Creek (1730-1796), c. 1753-1754, by John Wollaston (active 1736-1767).
Daniel Carroll served as one of the Maryland representatives to the first United States Congress. In a critical 1790 congressional decision, Carroll sided with George Washington on the location of the new United States capital. In gratitude Washington named Carroll one of the three commissioners to establish the new capital on the Potomac River. Carroll stood to gain from this location for he owned a 4,000-acre plantation northeast of Georgetown. As one of the commissioners Carroll hired Marylander Andrew Ellicott who, with free African American Benjamin Banneker, surveyed the boundary lines of the new federal district. |