Horse racing Īn owner of thoroughbred horses, Tasker is noted in horse racing circles for having imported from England the mare ' Selima' between 17. Tasker partnered with his brother-in-law, Christopher Lowndes on the slaving voyage of the Elijah. He was dispatched to settle Cresap's War between Maryland and Pennsylvania. In 1752 he helped to organize a lottery to pay for a town clock in Annapolis.

While it was rejected, its goals were pursued later at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Ath the adjournment of the congress, the plan adopted was submitted to the various legislatures for approval. He served on a committee at the Albany congress with Benjamin Franklin which was charged with the task of drawing up a plan for a central government of all the colonies. He was one of Maryland's delegates to the Albany Congress of 1754, another attempt on the part of the colonists to deal jointly with a common problem. This commission resulted in the Confederacy of 1752, a union of colonial interests for defense about a quarter of a century before the United States Declaration of Independence. was appointed by Provincial Governor of Maryland, Horatio Sharpe as Commissioner, to secure the assistance of The Six Nations, having been voted £500 by the Maryland General Assembly for this purpose. Tasker was Surveyor General of the Eastern Shore from October 1747 to 1755. was Naval Officer for the port of Annapolis (a position previously held by his father). was born in Maryland in 1720, the son of Ann Bladen and Benjamin Tasker Sr., the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.įrom September 1742 to December 1755, Benjamin Tasker Jr.

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