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Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. embassy to France and became one of the earliest American writers, producing two books, the influential A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America , and a novel, The Emigrants , both of which ...
Gilbert Imlay, ? 1754 - 1828, American speculator and diplomat. Imlay, an army officer during the American War for Independence, settled for a time in Kentucky, writing from his experiences on the then-frontier a valuable Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America , published in London in 1792. He appears to have left ...
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Thus, this biography chronicles in detail Imlay's early career as a Revolutionary American soldier and land speculator in Kentucky and paints an original portrait of a man whose addiction to speculation and whose personal charm briefly propelled him into the heart of the political and economic upheavals taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.
9 October 2017. stated in. Kindred Britain. Kindred Britain ID. I4988. subject named as. Capt. Gilbert Imlay. ... Gilbert Imlay (9 Feb 1754 - 20 Nov 1828) 0 references .
Gilbert Imlay: Citizen of the World. Wil Verhoeven. Routledge, Sep 30, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828),...
Jan 10, 2022 · IMLAY, Gilbert, author, b. in New Jersey about 1750. He was a captain in the American army during the Revolutionary war, and after its termination emigrated to Kentucky, where he was appointed a deputy surveyor under George May, at Louisville. Subsequently he went to Europe, and while in Paris lived unmarried, in mutual pledges of constancy ...
Dec 2, 2020 · Such investigation tends to confirm the idea that it was the American Gilbert Imlay who died at St. Brelade. 15. Noted by Rusk in correction of Townsend, who had wrongly supposed the name of Gilbert's grandmother was Mary, and that, “dying in 1754, she had referred to him in her will.”. 16.
