[1] He married Hannah Amelia Denton in 1861 at Christ's First Presbyterian Church, Nassau County, New York.

In the 1870s, David purchased an orange plantation near Crescent City, Florida, and planted more than sixty thousand trees.

[5] In 1859, Carll moved from Northport and bought out and enlarged the shipyard started by Samuel P. Hart in City Island, Bronx, at the East End of Pilot Avenue.

[7] The Vesta was modeled and built by David Carll for the tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard in 1866.

He built the yachts: Ambassadress (1877), Nirvana (1884), Atalanta (1873), Vega Reindeer (1873), Stephen D. Barnes (1875), LV 39 (1875), William H. Bailey (1878), Samuel S. Thorp (1881), Mollie J. Saunders (1883), Sue Williams (1883), and Vesta; the sloops: Gracie (1878), Phebe and Lurline; and the Magic for Franklin Osgood.

[4] On May 21, 1872, Vice-Commodore John S. Dickerson of the Brooklyn Yacht Club took the schooner-yacht Fleur de Lis to be fitted out by David Carll.

[11] David Carll died on December 27, 1888, at the age of 62 at his plantation, near Crescent City, Florida.