For the Confederate cavalry officer, see John Lawrence Donelson.
American explorer and adventurer
John Donelson
Born
17 March 1718[1]
Died
17 November 1785 (aged 67)
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, explorer
Spouse
Rachel Stockley Donelson
Children
11, Jane Donelson Hays, Mary Donelson Caffery, Rachel Jackson, plus another sister and seven brothers
Relatives
Andrew Jackson (son-in-law) Daniel Smith Donelson John Donelson Martin
John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer. After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier. There, together with James Robertson, Donelson co-founded the frontier settlement of Fort Nashborough. This later developed as the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
Donelson and his wife Rachel had eleven children, four of them girls. Their tenth, daughter Rachel,
married Andrew Jackson who was elected United States president in 1828.
^"National First Ladies' Library: Rachel Jackson". Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
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the settlers against wild animals and Indians. James Robertson and JohnDonelson are considered the founders, and colloquially, the "founders of Tennessee"...
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Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and JohnDonelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later...
settlers' lives from the initial attacks. In 1779, James Robertson and JohnDonelson led two groups of settlers from the Washington District to the French...
Louisiana, the seat of St. Mary Parish. His great-grandfather, Colonel JohnDonelson, co-founder of the city of Nashville, was the father-in-law of President...
the home of Rachel Stockly Donelson, the widow of JohnDonelson, Jackson became acquainted with their daughter, Rachel Donelson Robards. The younger Rachel...
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a settler who migrated to Tennessee with Colonel JohnDonelson. It was inherited by his son, John W. Cloyd, followed by the latter's daughter, Ella Cloyd...
Hard Labour in October 1768. A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by JohnDonelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the...
Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in...
the nineteenth century. Stockley Donelson, the house's builder, was the son of Middle Tennessee pioneer JohnDonelson, and brother of Rachel Jackson, wife...