From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. Bowie, Maryland: Bowie Heritage Committee. ![]() Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins Company. Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. ^ a b Richardson, Hester Dorsey (1903).Ann Dulany of the City of London still longer to perpetuate the memory of those of her respected ancestors whose remains are deposited beneath them. Here are deposited the remains of the Honourable Benjamin Tasker who departed this 1life the 19th of June AD 1768 in the 78th year of his Age which though of a constitution naturally weak and tender he attained through the efficiency of an exemplary temperance At the time of his decease he was President of the Council a station he had occupied for thirty two years The offices of Agent and receiver general and judge of the prerogative Court he successively exercised Such were his qualities his probity equanimity candor benevolence that no one was more respected more beloved So diffusive and pure his humanity so singular the influence of his deportment that he was no one's enemy nor any one his These tombs are erected in the year 1826 in the place of the original ones which have decayed by the liberality and filial affection of Mrs. Frances Ann Tasker (1738–1787), married the wealthy planter Robert Carter (of Nominy, Westmoreland County, Virginia) at the age of sixteen, in 1754.Elizabeth Tasker (1726–1789) married Christopher Lowndes (1713–1785), merchant of Bladensburg, Maryland and slave trading partner of Benjamin Tasker Jr.Rebecca Tasker (1724–1797) married Daniel Dulany the Younger in 1749.Anne Tasker (1728–1817), married the much older Gov.(1720–1760), Mayor of Annapolis and slave trader. Tasker married Ann Bladen, daughter of William Bladen Attorney-General of Maryland, in on July 31, 1711. ![]() Governor Samuel Ogle, married Tasker's eldest daughter, Anne. He left Tasker with his power of attorney and in addition "the task of supervising the construction of a new house at Belair." Family In 1740, Governor Samuel Ogle was dispatched to England following England's declaration of war against Spain. In October 1731, Tasker was one of the founders of the Baltimore Ironworks Company. He also served in the municipal and provincial government as: member and president of the Governor's Council, 1722–1768 member of the Lower House of the Maryland Legislature, 1715–1717, 1720–1722 member of the Upper House, 1722–1766, 1768 President of the Upper House, 1734–1766, 1768 Annapolis alderman, 1720, 1754–1766 Mayor of Annapolis, 1721–1722, 1726–1727, 1747–1748, 1750–1753, 1756–1757 President of the Council in 1752 acting governor of Maryland, 1753. Tasker became a naval officer at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1719 and served until 1742. Benjamin Tasker was born around 1690 in Calvert County, Maryland to Rebecca Isaacs (née Brooke) and Thomas Tasker.
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