Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country (including the Virginia Military District)[1] who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier.

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

In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor, but he refused the office.

Massie served as a Ross county delegate to the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention[2] and was a leader of the Jeffersonian faction that supported statehood.

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