Note 840 — Chapter VI
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[He was born in 1698; but see W. S. Bogart on “the mystery of Oglethorpe’s birthday,” in Magazine of American History, February, 1883, p. 108. There is a statement as to his family in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, ii. 17; copied by Harris, in his Life of Oglethorpe.—Ed.]