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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. 624324 Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28 — Imlay, Gilbert 1891 Richard Garnett IMLAY , GILBERT ( fl . 1793), author and soldier, was born in New Jersey about 1755, as may be inferred from an allusion in the preface to his account of Kentucky.

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  4. May 16, 2016 · This radical and abolitionist Gilbert Imlay is the man Wollstonecraft fell in love with and dreamed of living with “on a farm in the pristine American wilderness.” Inlay also wrote what is considered the first American frontier novel, The Emigrants (1793), with some assistance from Wollstonecraft.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  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 · 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 ...

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