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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. In 1785 he quietly left America, probably for Europe, leaving a string of unpaid debts in his wake.
In January 1785 Breckinridge received a 1,000-acre grant for his war service. Five months later he purchased 5,662 Fayette County acres. In 1785 he filed entries for 13,600 acres in Fayette, but withdrew on 7,800 of those. He came alone to Kentucky in 1790, bought property for a home, and brought his family 1793.
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May 22, 2008 · The town was probably founded in 1690. Gilbert Imlay was a fourth-generation descendant of Patrick Imlay. The Imlay mansion in Imlaystown was acquired by Patrick’s son, Peter, in 1727 and...
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.
Gilbert Imlay’s (1754–1828) work and life have only recently started to draw academic interest, chiey thanks to the detailed biographical work conducted by the transatlantic scholar Wil Verhoeven, in which he elabo-rates how Imlay served “as an interface between gures of much greater
- Verena Adamik
- 2020
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. In 1785 he quietly left America, probably for Europe, leaving a string of unpaid debts in his wake.
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.
