Carroll, Charles [known as Charles Carroll of Annapolis] (1702–1782), planter and ironmaster in America, was born on 2 April 1702, in Annapolis, Maryland, the second surviving son of Charles Carroll the Settler (1661–1720), proprietary agent, merchant, planter, moneylender, and lawyer, and Mary, ...
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Pinney, John Pretor (1740–1818), merchant and planter, was born at Chard, Somerset, on 18 September 1740, the second of the two children of Michael Pretor (d. 1744), a gentleman, of Okehampton, Devon, and his wife, Alicia Clarke (d. 1759). At the age of fifteen he passed into the guardianship of his cousins ...