Crossword-Solution: BASTROP 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

From Austin to Corpus Christi there was only a small settlement at Bastrop, with a few farms along the Colorado River; but after leaving that, there were no settlements except the home of one man, with one female slave, at the old town of Goliad.

That they were to take possession of the immense grant purchased of Baron Bastrop, but that in case of a war between the United States and Spain, which might at any time occur, as the Mexicans were very weary of the Spanish yoke, Congress would send an army to protect the settlers and help Mexico, so that a new empire would be founded of a democratic type, and the settlers finding all on an equality, would be enabled to enrich themselves beyond all former precedent.

Tut Bastrop contracted with the Spanish government for a tract of land exceeding thirty miles square near Nachitoches.

Subsequently Colonel Charles Lynch made an arrangement with Bastrop for an interest in this contract.

Bastrop, who is your representative in the Congress of the United States and who has always et cetera, et cetera? 'Fellow-citizens, the issue before this country to-day--' and that was where he would hit his gait.