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Family political legacy. Death and legacy. More about descendants. See also. References. External links. John Donelson. For the Confederate cavalry officer, see John Lawrence Donelson. John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer.
- 1718
- Rachel Stockley Donelson
- American
8 de oct. de 2017 · 3 minutes to read. John Donelson, land speculator and early settler of Middle Tennessee, led over one hundred settlers on a tortuous water journey to the Cumberland settlement during the winter of 1779-80.
Other articles where John Donelson is discussed: Nashville: History: …1780 by another group under John Donelson. Fort Nashborough, built at the site and named for American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, became the centre of the new community. (A replica of the fort stands in a park along the Cumberland River.) Henderson is also credited with having written the…
Exploring the Legacies of James Robertson and John Donelson. The Libraries partnered with the Middle Tennessee State University Center for Historic Preservation, the Vanderbilt University Press, and Vanderbilt University to offer webinars on two of Tennessee’s best-known frontiersmen: James Robertson and John Donelson.
Voyage of Adventure: Retracing Donelson's Journey. John Guider follows John Donelson’s 1779 river voyage to the founding of Nashville.
11 de may. de 2017 · The first of the family John and Rachel Stockley Donelson settled into a in America was Patrick Donelson, who arrived in large, comfortably rough house distinctive for its Somerset County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, "long sloping roof and wide rock chimneys"10 and in 1716. 2 He was already at least in middle age, for he began the task of ...
A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by John Donelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the mouth of the Kentucky River, substantially west of the Kanawha River, cleaving what is today extreme western Virginia, a wedge of western Virginia and a large part of northeastern Kentucky to Virginia colony, which lands we...
