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[[File:Mrs. Richard Caton, (Polly Carroll) (NYPL Hades-280262-1253531) (cropped).tiff|thumb|Polly Carroll]]
[[File:Mrs. Richard Caton, (Polly Carroll) (NYPL Hades-280262-1253531) (cropped).tiff|thumb|Polly Carroll]]
[[File:Castle Thunder marker.png|thumb|Marker at the present location of Castle Thunder on Frederick Road in Catonsville]]
[[File:Castle Thunder marker.png|thumb|Marker at the present location of Castle Thunder on Frederick Road in Catonsville]]
Caton was married to Mary "Polly" Carroll (1770–1846) at [[Annapolis]] on November 25, 1787. Polly was the daughter of [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]], the last surviving signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]].<ref name="Luckett1937">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngYNAAAAYAAJ |title=Maryland Women: Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1942 |last=Luckett |first=Margie Hersh |date=1937 |publisher=King Bros., Incorporated Press |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> After the wedding, Carroll gave Polly and Richard a home, known as [[Castle Thunder (house)|Castle Thunder]], which stood from 1787 to 1907.<ref name="Luckett1937" /> Her younger sister Kitty Carroll married the lawyer and [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert Goodloe Harper]].<ref name="Hanson2009">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0AUCoIl4IcC&pg=PA141 |title=Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland |last=Hanson |first=George A. |date=2009 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=9780806346328 |page=141 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> They were the parents of four daughters who survived to maturity, including:<ref name="Maryland1829">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twhRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 |title=Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly |date=1829 |publisher=Frederick Green |page=182 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
Caton was married to Mary "Polly" Carroll (1770–1846) at [[Annapolis]] on November 25, 1787. Polly was the daughter of [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]], the last surviving signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]].<ref name="Luckett1937">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngYNAAAAYAAJ |title=Maryland Women: Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1942 |last=Luckett |first=Margie Hersh |date=1937 |publisher=King Bros., Incorporated Press |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> After the wedding, Carroll gave Polly and Richard a home, known as [[Castle Thunder (house)|Castle Thunder]], which stood from 1787 to 1907.<ref name="Luckett1937" /> Her younger sister Kitty Carroll married the lawyer and [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert Goodloe Harper]].<ref name="Hanson2009">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0AUCoIl4IcC&pg=PA141 |title=Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland |last=Hanson |first=George A. |date=2009 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=9780806346328 |page=141 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
They were the parents of four daughters who survived to maturity, including:<ref name="Maryland1829">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twhRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 |title=Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly |date=1829 |publisher=Frederick Green |page=182 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>


*[[Marianne Wellesley, Marchioness Wellesley|Marianne Caton]] (1788–1853), who married Robert Patterson, brother of [[Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte|Elizabeth Patterson]] (wife of [[Jérôme Bonaparte]]). After his death, she married the British statesman [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley]],<ref name="MarquessWellesley">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/wellesley1799.htm |title=Wellesley, Marquess (I, 1799 - 1842) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> brother of [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]],<ref name="Larson2014">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzAQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23 |title=Lincoln’s Loyal Lady: Anna Ella Carroll, a Brief |last=Larson |first=C. Kay |date=2014 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781499080353 |page=23 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> who was believed to have been previously Marianne's [[Extramarital sex|paramour]].<ref name="Beirne1984">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNso9EnqfxcC&pg=PA111 |title=The Amiable Baltimoreans |last=Francis F. Beirne |date=October 1984 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-2513-2 |pages=111–}}</ref>
*[[Marianne Wellesley, Marchioness Wellesley|Marianne Caton]] (1788–1853), who married Robert Patterson, brother of [[Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte|Elizabeth Patterson]] (wife of [[Jérôme Bonaparte]]). After his death, she married the British statesman [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley]],<ref name="MarquessWellesley">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/wellesley1799.htm |title=Wellesley, Marquess (I, 1799 - 1842) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> brother of [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]],<ref name="Larson2014">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzAQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23 |title=Lincoln’s Loyal Lady: Anna Ella Carroll, a Brief |last=Larson |first=C. Kay |date=2014 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781499080353 |page=23 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> who was believed to have been previously Marianne's [[Extramarital sex|paramour]].<ref name="Beirne1984">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNso9EnqfxcC&pg=PA111 |title=The Amiable Baltimoreans |last=Francis F. Beirne |date=October 1984 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-2513-2 |pages=111–}}</ref>
*Elizabeth Caton (1790–1862), who married [[Baron Stafford|Sir George Strafford, 8th Baron Strafford]].<ref name="BaronStafford">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/staffordbaron1640.htm |title=Stafford, Baron (E, 1640) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
*Elizabeth Caton (1790–1862), who married [[Baron Stafford|Sir George Strafford, 8th Baron Strafford]].<ref name="BaronStafford">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/staffordbaron1640.htm |title=Stafford, Baron (E, 1640) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
* Louisa Catharine Caton (1793–1874), who married [[Felton Hervey-Bathurst|Colonel Sir Felton Bathurst-Hervey, 1st Baronet]].<ref name="Hervey-Bathurst">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/herveybb1818.htm |title=Hervey-Bathurst (UK Baronet, 1818) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> After his death, she married [[Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds|Francis D'Arcy-Osborne]], later the 7th [[Duke of Leeds]].<ref name="DukeLeeds">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/leeds1694.htm |title=Leeds, Duke of (E, 1694 - 1964) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
* Louisa Catharine Caton (1793–1874), who married [[Felton Hervey-Bathurst|Colonel Sir Felton Hervey-Bathurst]], 1st [[Baronet]].<ref name="Hervey-Bathurst">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/herveybb1818.htm |title=Hervey-Bathurst (UK Baronet, 1818) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> After his death, she married [[Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds|Francis D'Arcy-Osborne]], later the 7th [[Duke of Leeds]].<ref name="DukeLeeds">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/leeds1694.htm |title=Leeds, Duke of (E, 1694 - 1964) |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
* Emily Caton (1794/5–1867), who married the Scottish born [[John MacTavish (British Consul)|John McTavish]], British Consul at Baltimore. They lived at [[Carrollton Hall]], near [[Doughoregan Manor]].<ref name="Wise2006">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sTc6UuiYS0C&pg=PT79 |title=Ellicott City |last=Wise |first=Marsha Wight |date=2006 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=9781439617281 |page=79 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
* Emily Caton (1794/5–1867), who married the Scottish born [[John MacTavish (British Consul)|John McTavish]], British Consul at Baltimore. They lived at [[Carrollton Hall]], near [[Doughoregan Manor]].<ref name="Wise2006">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sTc6UuiYS0C&pg=PT79 |title=Ellicott City |last=Wise |first=Marsha Wight |date=2006 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=9781439617281 |page=79 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>


His eldest three girls were known as "The Three American Graces" due to their beauty and the fact that all married into the [[English aristocracy]]. His youngest daughter remained in Maryland and ran the family finances. Caton died in [[Catonsville, Maryland]] on May 19, 1845 in Baltimore and was buried at [[Green Mount Cemetery]]. At his death, he died insolvent, leaving $2,762.<ref name="Wake2012" /> His widow died the following year on November 14, 1846, leaving a personal fortune of £186,000 (roughly equivalent to $19.9 million).<ref name="Wake2012">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9vIQ4J28Tn8C&pg=PA3 |title=Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad |last=Wake |first=Jehanne |date=2012 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |isbn=9781451607635 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
His eldest three girls were known as "The Three American Graces" due to their beauty and the fact that all married into the [[English aristocracy]]. His youngest daughter remained in Maryland and ran the family finances.
Caton died in [[Catonsville, Maryland]] on May 19, 1845 in Baltimore and was buried at [[Green Mount Cemetery]]. At his death, he died insolvent, leaving $2,762.<ref name="Wake2012" /> His widow died the following year on November 14, 1846, leaving a personal fortune of £186,000 (roughly equivalent to $19.9 million).<ref name="Wake2012">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9vIQ4J28Tn8C&pg=PA3 |title=Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad |last=Wake |first=Jehanne |date=2012 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |isbn=9781451607635 |language=en |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>


===Descendants===
===Descendants===

Revision as of 22:36, 31 August 2020

Richard Caton
Born1763
Lancashire, England
DiedMay 19, 1845(1845-05-19) (aged 81–82)
Catonsville, Maryland
Resting placeGreen Mount Cemetery
Occupation(s)Merchant, real estate developer
Spouse(s)
Mary Carroll
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​
(m. 1787; "his death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1845)​
ChildrenMarianne Wellesley, Marchioness Wellesley
Elizabeth, Lady Stafford
Louisa, Duchess of Leeds
Emily MacTavish

Richard Caton (1763 – May 19, 1845) was an Englishman who became a Baltimore merchant.

Early life

Caton was born in 1763 in Lancashire, England.[1] He was a son of John Caton and the sister of Dorothy Caton, who married William Woodville, grandparents of artist Richard Caton Woodville, himself the father of artist Richard Caton Woodville Jr.[2]

Career

Brooklandwood in 2009

Caton left England and settled in Baltimore in 1785 as a merchant involved in the manufacture of cotton goods.[3]

After his 1787 marriage, his father-in-law instructed him to develop area along the newly built Frederick Road, which Carroll owned land next to. He gave his name to the community and called it "Catonville", although the name was changed to "Catonsville" in the 1830s.[4]

In 1790, Caton built Brooklandwood in Baltimore County, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[5]

Personal life

Polly Carroll
Marker at the present location of Castle Thunder on Frederick Road in Catonsville

Caton was married to Mary "Polly" Carroll (1770–1846) at Annapolis on November 25, 1787. Polly was the daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the wedding, Carroll gave Polly and Richard a home, known as Castle Thunder, which stood from 1787 to 1907.[6] Her younger sister Kitty Carroll married the lawyer and U.S. Senator Robert Goodloe Harper.[7]

They were the parents of four daughters who survived to maturity, including:[8]

His eldest three girls were known as "The Three American Graces" due to their beauty and the fact that all married into the English aristocracy. His youngest daughter remained in Maryland and ran the family finances.

Caton died in Catonsville, Maryland on May 19, 1845 in Baltimore and was buried at Green Mount Cemetery. At his death, he died insolvent, leaving $2,762.[16] His widow died the following year on November 14, 1846, leaving a personal fortune of £186,000 (roughly equivalent to $19.9 million).[16]

Descendants

Through his youngest daughter Emily, his only child to have children, he was a grandfather of four, including Charles Carroll MacTavish (1818–1868),[17] who married Marcella Scott (a daughter of Gen. Winfield Scott);[18] Mary Wellesley MacTavish (1826–1850), who married Hon. Henry George Howard (youngest son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle); Alexander Simon MacTavish (1829–1863), who married Ellen Gilmor; and Richard Caton MacTavish (1831–1841), who died young.[19]

Legacy

References

  1. ^ "Richard Caton b. 1763 England d. 1845 Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties". www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  2. ^ Wolff, Justin (2002). Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-691-07083-4.
  3. ^ Dennis. "Caton Sisters of Baltimore". Access Genealogy. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  4. ^ "History of Catonsville, Maryland". www.u-s-history.com. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Brooklandwood. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-10-05.
  6. ^ a b Luckett, Margie Hersh (1937). Maryland Women: Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1942. King Bros., Incorporated Press. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  7. ^ Hanson, George A. (2009). Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 141. ISBN 9780806346328. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  8. ^ Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly. Frederick Green. 1829. p. 182. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Wellesley, Marquess (I, 1799 - 1842)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  10. ^ Larson, C. Kay (2014). Lincoln’s Loyal Lady: Anna Ella Carroll, a Brief. Xlibris Corporation. p. 23. ISBN 9781499080353. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  11. ^ Francis F. Beirne (October 1984). The Amiable Baltimoreans. JHU Press. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-0-8018-2513-2.
  12. ^ "Stafford, Baron (E, 1640)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  13. ^ "Hervey-Bathurst (UK Baronet, 1818)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Leeds, Duke of (E, 1694 - 1964)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  15. ^ Wise, Marsha Wight (2006). Ellicott City. Arcadia Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 9781439617281. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  16. ^ a b c d Wake, Jehanne (2012). Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451607635. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Entered a Holy Life; a Baltimore Belle Takes the White Veil in Belgium" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 March 1887. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  18. ^ Caldwell, John; Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez; Johnson, Dale T. (1994). American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 534. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  19. ^ Wake, Jehanne (2010). Sisters of Fortune. A Touchstone Book published by Simom & Schuster.
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