Benjamin Ogle

[2] Ogle returned to Maryland in 1770 to find Tasker's daughters (his aunts) were occupying his father's estate, the Belair Mansion, so he resided in his father's city home, Ogle Hall, at 247 King George Street in Annapolis (which is now Alumni House for the United States Naval Academy).

Ogle took possession of the Belair Mansion in 1774 after a lawsuit to reclaim his father's home from the Tasker family.

[1] Ogle became a friend of George Washington whose presidential records show he dined at Belair on October 1, 1773.

[1] Upon George Washington's death in 1799, Ogle issued a proclamation that February 11, 1800 be observed throughout the State as a day of mourning.

[5]: 78  His home, the Tayloe House, became a salon for politically powerful people in the federal government and socially influential individuals in the United States and abroad.