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- Following his military service, Imlay sought his fortune in Kentucky (then still part of Virginia) and purchased a tract of land in Fayette County in 1783. He arrived there in March 1784, and quickly became involved in land speculation.
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Following his military service, Imlay sought his fortune in Kentucky (then still part of Virginia) and purchased a tract of land in Fayette County in 1783. He arrived there in March 1784, and quickly became involved in land speculation.
La Fayette was not freed until the peace of Campo Formio, Oct. 17, 1797, when Napoleon asked for his release. Mme. La Fayette had set out from Dunkerque Sept. 5 on a small American ship, and reached Hamburg on Sept. 13, according to Robert de Crèvecceur, Saint John de Crèvecœur sa vie et ses ouvrages, p. 208.
In March 1783 Boone agreed to accept Imlay's promissory note for £2,000, to be paid in two instalments in exchange for a tract of 10,000 acres located on Hingston's Fork of the Licking River in Fayette County, which Boone had entered on 26 December the year before.
He moved to Fayette County about the same time as Robert. In May 1784 he entered a claim for 24,688 acres along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, but the entry was later withdrawn. The fourth son of Col. John Breckinridge was destined to become the most famous sibling.
Following his military service, Imlay sought his fortune in Kentucky (then still part of Virginia) and purchased a tract of land in Fayette County in 1783. He arrived there in March 1784, and quickly became involved in land speculation.
Gilbert Imlay 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 .
Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants—published in 1793, four years after the ratication of the US constitution—illustrates that there indeed is a peril inherent in the discursive link between utopia and the United States, already detectable while the nation was still in the process of formation.
