^ Warfield, Joshua Dorsey (July 1905), The Founders of Anne Arundel And Howard Counties, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland: Kohn & Pollock, p. 212, ISBN 0-8063-7971-5,.Tasker and Franklin became friends, and when Franklin visited Annapolis in the spring of 1755, he visited Tasker at the Belair Mansion, then being run by Tasker. As a broodmare, "Selima" produced ten foals that would became an important bloodline in American racing with important racing offspring such as "Hanover" and is even the ancestress of George Washington's stallion, "Magnolia." Sired by Godolphin Arabian, "Selima" was raced until the end of the 1752 season then was sent to Samuel Ogle's Belair Stud in Collington, Maryland. Horse racingĪn owner of thoroughbred horses, Tasker is noted in horse racing circles for having imported from England the mare " Selima" between 17. He served as Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755. 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. was born in Maryland in 1720, the son of Ann Bladen and Benjamin Tasker, Sr., the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.
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