"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. On his passing in 1768, Benjamin Tasker was buried in St. Rebecca, married Daniel Dulany the Younger (1722–1797) in 1749.Frances Ann Tasker (1738–1787), married the wealthy planter Robert Carter at the age of sixteen.Elizabeth Tasker (1726–1789) married Christopher Lowndes (1713–1785), merchant of Bladensburg, Maryland.
In 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.
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