Crossword-Solution: OGLETHORPE 10 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Archer, very quietly, ‘this Oglethorpe—how is he now?’ ‘Well, sir, with my respects, I take it he has a hole bang through him,’ said Sam.

They say it is bad for a green wound, but in the Low Countries we all drank water when we found the chance, and I could never perceive we were the worse for it.’ ‘Been wounded yourself, sir, perhaps?’ called Oglethorpe.

Oglethorpe thought slavery against law and gospel; but the circumstances which gave Georgia its first inhabitants were not calculated to furnish citizens over-nice in their ideas about rum and slaves.

The Committee, consisting of ninety-six prominent men, with Oglethorpe as Chairman, recommended and secured the redress of many grievances, and the passing of better laws for the future, but Oglethorpe and a few associates conceived a plan which they thought would eradicate the evil by striking at its very root, the difficulty which many found in earning a living in the overcrowded cities.

Heaven, sure, has kept this spot of earth uncurst, To shew how all things were created first.” So wrote Oglethorpe, quoting the lines as the best pen picture he could give of the new land, and truly, if the colonists found the reality less roseate than they anticipated, it was not the fault of their generous, energetic leader, who spared neither pains nor means in his effort to make all things work out as his imagination had painted them.