13 Facts About Nathaniel Mitchell

Nathaniel Mitchell was an American lawyer and politician from Laurel, in Sussex County, Delaware.

Nathaniel Mitchell was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as Governor of Delaware.

Nathaniel Mitchell married Emma Yrten and had ten children: Rebecca, Emma, William, Theodore, Alfred, Dagworthy, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Frederick.

Nathaniel Mitchell was one of the founders of Georgetown, Delaware, and lived there on the northeast corner of the square from about 1791 until 1808.

Nathaniel Mitchell was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

In 1779, Nathaniel Mitchell was brigade major on General Peter Muhlenberg's staff in the tidewater Virginia.

Nathaniel Mitchell was held prisoner until after the Battle of Yorktown.

Nathaniel Mitchell was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

Hall was another veteran of the American Revolution who ran a campaign critical of Nathaniel Mitchell's alleged deistic Anglicanism.

Nathaniel Mitchell lost heavily Presbyterian New Castle County by just enough votes to overcome his wide margins elsewhere.

Nathaniel Mitchell served as Governor of Delaware from January 15,1805, until January 19,1808.

Nathaniel Mitchell had the first store there, on the northwest corner of Delaware Avenue and Market Street.

Unlike Nathaniel Mitchell, Bull was a Democratic-Republican and ran for Governor of Delaware in 1816 and 1819, losing to John Clark and Henry Molleston.