12 Facts About Nathaniel Massie

Nathaniel Massie was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier.

Nathaniel Massie founded fourteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe.

Nathaniel Massie platted the town of Chillicothe on his own land.

Nathaniel Massie was one of the largest landowners in early Ohio, and served as a major general in the Ohio militia.

Nathaniel Massie served as a Ross county delegate to the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention and was a leader of the Jeffersonian faction that supported statehood.

Nathaniel Massie was a leader of the Chillicothe Junto, a group of Chillicothe Democratic-Republican politicians who brought about the admission of Ohio as a state in 1803, and largely controlled its politics for some years thereafter.

Nathaniel Massie was a Presidential elector for Thomas Jefferson in 1804 and James Madison in 1808.

Nathaniel Massie was a Trustee of Ohio University from 1804 to 1808.

Nathaniel Massie served in the General Assembly and was the first president of the Ohio Senate.

Nathaniel Massie led troops in the War of 1812, but died of pneumonia in the late autumn of 1813 at the age of 49.

Nathaniel Massie is interred in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio.

Nathaniel Massie, Born Goochland County, Virginia, December 28,1763,1800 Married Sarah Everard Mead, Died November 13,1813.