[2][3][4] Charity was born into slavery and held by Maryland Governor Samuel Ogle.
Until the age of 10 or 12, Charity lived at Belair Plantation with her mother, Rachel Burke, and brother James; her father is believed to have been plantation manager Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Jr.[2] She was transferred to the ownership of Annapolis's John Ridout.
In some reports she accompanied Ogle's daughter Mary to White Hall Plantation in 1764 upon Mary's marriage to John Ridout, Ogle's secretary;[5] Historian Jessica Millward places the transfer sometime between 1765 and 1767, saying that 'It is equally possible that Charity became the property of John Ridout when he served as executor of the estates of Benjamin Tasker, Sr. and Benjamin Tasker, Jr.'[2] While still enslaved, she married her husband Thomas who was enslaved by another Annapolis merchant until 1794[1] She and her husband had several children including Harriet Calder (1789-??
Dr. Hutchens C. Bishop, an Episcopalean minister who served as President of the historic 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade in New York City.
[2] Property she owned was studied in the late twentieth-century as 'the Courthouse Site' in Annapolis archaeology.