. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . signof a symbolical scene on Mount Sinai that wasplaced over the altar in St. Pauls Chapel. Hewas the architect of a magnificent residence forRobert JMorris in Philadelphia, in which, beforeit was finished, Morris sunk a fortune. LEn-fant died, in Prince Georges County, Maryland,June 14th, 1825. Among the Congressmen who assembled inthe city were the following Catholics; SenatorCharles Carroll, of INIaryland, who made hishome in No. 52 Smith Street, as William Streetbelow Maiden Lane wa
. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . signof a symbolical scene on Mount Sinai that wasplaced over the altar in St. Pauls Chapel. Hewas the architect of a magnificent residence forRobert JMorris in Philadelphia, in which, beforeit was finished, Morris sunk a fortune. LEn-fant died, in Prince Georges County, Maryland,June 14th, 1825. Among the Congressmen who assembled inthe city were the following Catholics; SenatorCharles Carroll, of INIaryland, who made hishome in No. 52 Smith Street, as William Streetbelow Maiden Lane was called; RepresentativesThomas Fitz Simons, of Pennsylvania, at , in Pearl Street; Daniel Carroll, ofMaryland, with his cousin, Charles Carroll, inNo. 52 Smith Street, and Judge Aedanus Burke,of South Carolina, in Mr. Hicks, Wall Street,corner of William Street. Daniel Carroll was a native of Maryland, amember of the Continental Congress and a dele-gate to the convention that framed the Constitu-tion of the United States. He served as a repre-sentative in Congress in 1789-91, and was one of. DANIEL CARROLL IN OLD NEW YORK 399 the commissioners appointed by Congress to sur-vey tlie District of Columbia. His farm coveredconsiderable of the ground now included in thecity of Washington. He died, in Washington,in 1829, at an advanced age. Of the founders of the Republic, Thomas FitzSimons is one of the least known to posterity, yetfew played a more important part in forming theeconomic policies of the infant Republic. Anative of Ireland, he came to Philadelphia withhis father prior to 1758. He married Catherine,sister of George Meade, a merchant of Philadel-phia, and a Catholic, in 1763. The patriots of Philadelphia met at the CityTavern, May 20th, 1774, to consider the stateof affairs resulting from Parliaments oppres-sive enactments, and Thomas Fitz Simons wasone of a Committee of Correspondence to call ageneral meeting of citizens. He was a convenerof the Continental
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