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  1. 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 ...

  2. May 16, 2016 · It turns out the man who loved and left Wollstonecraft was a con man of epic proportions with a particularly ugly secret. In Wollstonecraft biographies, Gilbert Imlay is the American adventurer who abandoned her after fathering her child. And that’s usually where’s he left.

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  4. Gilbert Imlay. 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 ...

  5. Jan 10, 2022 · "Imlay, Gilbert," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891) Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

  6. 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.

  7. The American Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754– c. 1828) was a man of many talents and trades.Described by one commentator as ‘unscrupulous, independent, courageous, a dodger of debts to the poor, a deserter, a protector of the helpless, a revolutionist, a man of enlightenment beyond his age, a greedy and treacherous land booster’, Gilbert Imlay was all of these and more.

  8. Jan 10, 2022 · Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Imlay, Gilbert. Inama, Francis. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. Edition of 1900. 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 ...

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