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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.
La Fayette was not freed until the peace of Campo Formio, Oct. 17, 1797, when Napoleon asked for his release. Mme. La Fayette had set out from Dunkerque Sept. 5 on a small American ship, and reached Hamburg on Sept. 13, according to Robert de Crèvecceur, Saint John de Crèvecœur sa vie et ses ouvrages, p. 208.
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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.
Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants—published in 1793, four years after the ratication of the US constitution—illustrates that there indeed is a peril inherent in the discursive link between utopia and the United States, already detectable while the nation was still in the process of formation.
- Verena Adamik
- 2020
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...
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.
May 16, 2016 · In most histories, he usually disappears in 1785, fleeing from his debts and the law in Kentucky, before reappearing in London with his first book in 1792. But in the interim, Verhoeven reveals, Imlay invested in the slave trade.
