Prologue. Fields of hunger: faith and war --
Ch. 1. "Anywhere so long as there be freedom" --
Ch. 2. "Marylando-Hibernus" --
Ch. 3. "A well-regulated Œconomy" --
Ch. 4. "Sound & strong": a worthy heir --
Ch. 5. Affairs of the heart: 1765-1773 --
Ch. 6. "A prudent management" --
Ch. 7. "The occupation of agriculture" --
Ch. 8. "There is the 1st: citizen": political beginnings --
Ch. 9. A broader allegiance: the American Revolution --
Ch. 10. The family economy: 1777-1782 --
Ch. 11. Scenes from a marriage: Charley and Molly, 1776-1782 --
App. 1. A poem about the O'Carroll Forces after the Battle of Aughrim --
App. 3. Incomes of the wealthy in early Maryland --
App. 4. Nineteenth-century accounts of Charles Carroll of Carrollton's birth --
App. 5. Carroll real estate transactions, Baltimore town, 1745-1763 --
App. 6. Genealogical charts.