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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Ohio's Nathaniel Massie-- Part 1

In the last post, I mentioned that Duncan McArthur was buried at Grandview Cemetery in Chillicothe, Ohio. Also buried there is Nathaniel Massie (1763-1813).

A Virginia native, he served in that state's militia during the American Revolution and then was a frontier surveyor who founded 14 towns in early Ohio, including Chillicothe, the first capital.  In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly elected him governor, but he refused it.

He also established Manchester, Ohio and platted Chillicothe.  One of Ohio's biggest landowners, he was also a major general in the state militia.

He led troops during the War of 1812 and in 1813, led 500 troops in a relief effort for William Henry Harrison who was besieged at Fort Meigs in Ohio.  There is a Captain Nathaniel Massie's Mounted Cavalry Company listed as probably being from Ross County.

Nathaniel Massie died of pneumonia on November 3, 1813.

--Brock-Perry

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