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Career. Donelson served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. From about 1770 to 1779, he operated the Washington Iron Furnace at Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia. [2] He next moved to the Watauga settlements on the Holston and Watauga rivers in Washington District, North Carolina.
8 de out. de 2017 · John Donelson was a land speculator and early settler of Middle Tennessee who led a group of pioneers on a dangerous voyage to the Cumberland settlement in 1779-80. He was a surveyor, a legislator, a colonel, and a signer of the Cumberland Compact.
Learn about John Donelson, one of Tennessee's frontiersmen who led a flotilla of settlers to Nashville in 1779. Watch a webinar on his journey, see his letters and documents, and explore his impact on Nashville's history.
This is the Journal kept by John Donelson on his trip from Fort Patrick Henry to French Salt Springs which he also refers to as the Big Salt Lick. He travels down the Holston, French Broad, Clinch, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers. The trip starts on December 22, 1779 and is completed on April 24, 1780.
Quick Facts. Née: Rachel Donelson. In full: Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson. Born: June 15, 1767, near Pittsylvania county, Virginia [U.S.] Died: December 22, 1828, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. (aged 61) Notable Family Members: spouse Andrew Jackson.
James Robertson (June 28, 1742 – September 1, 1814) was an American explorer, soldier and Indian agent, and one of the founding fathers of what became the State of Tennessee. An early companion of explorer Daniel Boone, Robertson helped establish the Watauga Association in the early 1770s, and to defend Fort Watauga from an attack ...
11 de mai. de 2017 · nessman and burgess, Colonel John Donelson. Through the last years of the colonial period and the early years of the national period, Donelson repre-sented exactly the restless man of enterprise for whom the lands farther west were always better than those where he was. The Donelson family originated in Scotland, where
