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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.

2. pikecountykyhistoricalsociety.com › content › imlaysImlay's Map of Silver Mine, 1790 - Pike County Historical Society

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   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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   Who was Gilbert Imlay?

   • Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat.

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   Who was John Imlay?

   • 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.

   XIX. Notes on Gilbert Imlay, Early American Writer

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   Why is George Imlay called Gilbert?

   • The printing of the name as “George Imlay” would indicate that the author, who was in Paris as has been shown, could not have seen the proof, and perhaps may not have been responsible for the additions to the book. The third London edition of the Topographical Description, issued in 1797 when Imlay was in that city, has his name correctly Gilbert.

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   Are William Godwin and Gilbert Imlay related?

   • 12 While William Godwin and Gilbert Imlay were both in London in the early 1790s, moved in the same circles, and while there are parallels in their thought and in their writing (Andrews 1997; Verhoeven 2008, 117, 124), there is to my knowledge no record of them having had any direct contact. Imlay is never once mentioned in Godwin’s dairies.

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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 ...

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   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

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6. www.geni.com › people › First-Lieutenant-GilbertGilbert Imlay (1754 - 1828) - Genealogy - Geni.com

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   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.

   • Location: Upper Freehold, New Jersey
   • Spouse: Mary Wollstonecraft

   • Place Of Birth: New Jersey
   • Birth Date: February 9, 1754

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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.

8. knarf.english.upenn.edu › People › gimlayGilbert Imlay - University of Pennsylvania

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   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 ...