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Gilbert Imlay. 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 ...
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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Mar 30, 2024 · Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. Imlay was known in his day as a shrewd but unscrupulous businessman involved in land speculation in Kentucky. He later served in the U.S. embassy to France and became one of the earliest American writers, producing two books, the ...
- Upper Freehold, New Jersey
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- New Jersey
- February 9, 1754
Imlay is also called “Lieutenant, Militia” in Stryker's Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, but is not mentioned by Ellis in his History of Monmouth County, N. J. (1885), although Imlay was born and reared in that county. Col. David Forman, under whom Imlay served, rose to be Brigadier General ...
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
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 ...
That venture was the triangular trade, and the man who introduced Imlay to it was Revolutionary War hero Talbot. Since Congress had retired him from the Continental navy as a lieu- tenant colonel without pay on January I, 1782, Talbot was eager to get. District had to be recorded in the appropriate county).
