Now that we are all done LOLing, laughing boy, perhaps you would like to offer your razor sharp legal analysis of why Lafayette was gifted with land and and monies from the first Continental Congress. And why his Natural Born status from Maryland didn't actually mean Natural Born. Take your time.....
LaFayette served in the Revolution and could avail himself of Bounty Land Grants just as any other soldier in the Revolution. He was also paid for his service. That takes care of the land and the money.
As far as his being an “honorary natural born citizen” of the State of Maryland during the time of the Articles of Confederation, his being afforded state citizenship extended certain privileges and rights to LaFayette within the state, including the right to vote and land ownership.
However, somebody is pulling your leg about the “natural born” thing, since he was made honorary citizen of Maryland in 1784.. The Constitution was ratified in 1789. The Constitutional Republic did not exist. The eligibility requirement didn’t exist. Even the very term “natural born citizen” did not yet exist, as it appears to have arisen de novo during the course of the Convention, derived from “The Law Of Nations,” which not so coincidentally spelled out the rationale and legalities of a constitutional republic. There wasn’t one in existence at that time, either. The United States was the first since the fall of Rome. It was in so many ways a novel undertaking.