Henry Carroll

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 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. 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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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