John Donelson
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Col. John Donelson, explorer and adventurer, was, with Colonel Samuel Barton and James Robertson, co-founder of Fort Nashborough in 1780, which would eventually become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Donelson was the father of Rachel Jackson, the wife of seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
[edit] References
- Crabb, Alfred Leland (1957). Journey to Nashville: A Story of the Founding. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
[edit] External links
- City of Nashville biography
- John Donelson Journal - Transcription and scan of journal about 1779 river journey.
- John Donelson's "Journal of the Adventure" - in J.G.M. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853).
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