Israel Donalson / Manchester Founders Cemetery

Israel Donalson / Manchester Founders Cemetery (HM2IO7)

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Member of the First Constitutional Convention of Ohio / 1791-1888

Israel Donalson, member of the First Constitutional Convention of Ohio.
In May 1800, Congress passed an act building the Northwest
Territory, with the western division becoming Indiana
Territory and the eastern called the Territory of the United
States Northwest of the Ohio River. Two years later,
thirty five delegates from the nine counties of the latter
division convened in Chillicothe to draw up the constitution
for the new state of Ohio, which became a state in 1803.
Israel Donalson was the last survivor of the convention
dying in 1860 at the age of 93.
This frontiersman served Manchester as a surveyor,
schoolteacher, postmaster, and judge in the first court.
In 1791, one month after his arrival here at Massie's Station,
Donalson was captured by Native Americans.
His memoir is a colorful account of his capture and escape.
Donalson served as an Elder for the
first Presbyterian church in Adams County, which stood on
these grounds.

Manchester Founders Cemetery, 1791-1888. Adams County, the third oldest in Ohio, was formed on July 10, 1791, and named for incumbent U.S. President John Adams. That same year Nathaniel Massie founded Manchester, built as a stockaded village and sometimes referred to as Massie's Station. Nathaniel attracted early settlers by giving them property in town



and a few acres nearby and so the town grew. At the time this wilderness area attracted only those who possessed a variety of skills, stamina, and frontier knowledge. There were no roads, and the only way in and out was by way of the Ohio River. The Manchester Founders Cemetery, founded in 1791, contains the gravesites of 300 people, including many of the original families such as the Ellisons, Wades, Andersons, Edingtons, Trenerys, Cooleys, and Donalsons.
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HM NumberHM2IO7
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Year Placed2002
Placed ByThe Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the Longaberger Company, Village of Manchester, and The Ohio Historical Society
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Date Added Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 8:01am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 273471 N 4285403
Decimal Degrees38.68826667, -83.60446667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 41.296', W 83° 36.268'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 41' 17.76" N, 83° 36' 16.08" W
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