GOV BENJAMIN OGLES LAST REQUEST TO HIS SON

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Transcription of Letter

February 1807

   “My dear Ben,” “As I always found you willing to oblige me while living I doubt not you’ll obey my last request– which is to order Shaw  to put me in the ground in the most private manner, no invitations whatever and beg that none of my family put on mourning.”

                                                                               Your affectionate Father

                                                                                   Ben Ogle
 

 The Maryland Gazette published on Wednesday, July 12, 1809

  Departed this life, on Friday morning last, at 1 o’clock, after a long and painful illness, in the 61st year of age, Benjamin Ogle, Esq., formerly governor of this state  His remains agreeable to his request, were privately interred the same evening on his farm, near this city.”

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