In 1737, Banneker was named at the age of 6 on the deed of his family's farm in the Patapsco Valley in rural Baltimore County."Richard Gist1737Robert BannakyBenjamin Bannaky+conveyance+J. Wells Stokes"(2) Facsimile of handwritten deed conveying property from Richard Gist to Robert Bannaky and Benjamin Bannaky.  "In" </ref> A letter writer stated in 1791 that Banneker's parents had sent him to an obscure school where he learned reading, writing and arithmetic as far as double position.(2) <br>(3) </ref> However, the remainder of Banneker's early life is not well documented.