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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.
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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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 ...
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...
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 The Emigrants (1793) Here you may appropriate your talents for the benet of mankind, and not waste them in idle speculation—here you will nd a new creation bursting from the shades of wildness into a populous state;—and here is the country were the foundation must be laid for the renovation of those privileges, which have
