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Samuel Ogle Samuel Ogle (c. 1694 - May 3, 1752) was the Provincial Governor of Maryland 1731-1732, 1733-1742, 1746/47-1752.
In 1741, Ogle married the much younger Anne Tasker (1723-1817), daughter of Benjamin Tasker and Anne Bladen. They had five children. In 1743, Samuel Ogle
built a mansion on a 7,000-acre tobacco
plantation in what today is known as
Samuel Ogle died in 1752 and was interred at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis.
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Born
a member of the aristocracy in
Newcastle-upon, Tyne, Northumberland,
England. Samuel Ogle became a captain of a
cavalry regiment in the British Army.
Appointed on December 7, 1731, he was
dispatched to Colonial America in 1732 to
serve as Provincial Governor and president
of the Maryland council.