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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. He served as Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755.Īn owner of thoroughbred horses, Tasker is noted in horse racing circles for having imported from England the mare "Selima" between 17. 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. was born in Maryland in 1720, the son of Ann Bladen and Benjamin Tasker, Sr., the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.īenjamin Tasker, Jr. He was the son of Benjamin Tasker, Sr., Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753 and Mayor of Annapolis on many occasions.īenjamin Tasker, Jr. (1720 – October 17, 1760) was a politician in colonial Maryland, and Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755.