Israel Donalson, Maysville's first school teacher
Subtitle: his thrilling escape from the Indians
By: by A.F. Curran
Publisher: Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Published: 1917
Place of publication: [Frankfort, Kentucky]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Captivity; Indian captivities; History
Other titles: Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society.
Description: An account of the early history of Maysville, Kentucky and the captivity of Israel Donalson.  Includes Donalson's first hand account written in 1842.
Notes: Caption title.

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Detached from: Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. May 1917.

Israel Donalson (born 1767 in New Jersey, died 1860 in Ohio) was an early settler in the Northwest Territory, and helped write the first Ohio Constitution. In May, 1790, he took a flatboat down the Ohio River to Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky, where he taught school, and he met Nathaniel Massie. He went with Massie to Massie's Station (now Manchester, Ohio) Northwest Territory early in 1791 to help survey lands in the Virginia Military District. In April 1791 he was captured by Indians, and held for a number of days before escaping. Donalson took up teaching in Manchester, and also some surveying, which he had studied in the East, and continued for much of his life. He was in Mad Anthony Wayne's Campaign in 1794 in the Northwest Indian War. In 1802, Donalson was elected as one of three Adams County delegates to the first Constitutional Convention of Ohio which met November 1-29, 1802.