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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.
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.
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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.
Mar 30, 2024 · After the war Imlay sought his fortune in the western territories, purchasing a tract of land in Fayette County, one of three territories into which Kentucky had been divided, 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. In 1785 he quietly left America, probably for Europe, leaving a string of unpaid debts in his wake.
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 ...
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
