Nathaniel Mitchell (1753 – February 21, 1814) was an American lawyer and politician from Laurel, in Sussex County, Delaware.
In 1776, he was captain of a Delaware company raised under Colonel Samuel Patterson as part of what was known as the "Flying Camp".
When British General Benedict Arnold attacked Richmond, Virginia, Mitchell was defending Petersburg when he was captured on May 10, 1781.
Hall was another veteran of the American Revolution who ran a campaign critical of Mitchell's alleged deistic Anglicanism.
Mitchell lost heavily Presbyterian New Castle County by just enough votes to overcome his wide margins elsewhere.
Hannah, Nathaniel Mitchell's widow, later married Colonel Manaen Bull, a British soldier who became a resident of Laurel after the American Revolution.
Unlike Mitchell, Bull was a Democratic-Republican and ran for Governor of Delaware in 1816 and 1819, losing to John Clark and Henry Molleston.