Lewis Wetzel

Matthew Arbuckle was active in raising the siege of Fort Donnally

Company under Samuel Lewis left Fort Savannah to assist Fort Donnally

John Stuart led a Company to defend the last attack on Fort Donnally in Lewisburg

Brooke Academy opened in trans-Allegheny Virginia

Dunmore, the southern end of Frederick County, was renamed Shenandoah

Indians killed Jesse Hughes's father

Mary Kinnan married Joseph Kinnan

Charles Lee settled in Berkeley County

Levi Shinn built a log house in Harrison County

Adam Stephen's military career was ended at the Battle of Brandywine

John Minear brought machinery for the first sawmill west of the Alleghenies

White Sulphur Springs were first reported

John Beckley became the first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Bryan Fairfax declined the title to become Lord Fairfax

Hughes' detractors unsuccessfully attempted to have Hughes River renamed "Junius River"

The Presbyterian general Assembly adopted a policy to send missionaries to the American frontier settlements to form new congregations.

John Stuart built a large stone house in Fort Springs

John Augustine Washington was born

Harman Blennerhassett sold his property

Daniel Boone moved back to Kentucky

House now containing Brooke County's historical museum was built in Wellsburg

Buckongahelas signed the Treaty of Greenville

George Clendenin moved to Ohio

Bryan Fairfax became founding trustee of Charles Town Academy

Wilson Nicholas and Jacob Kenney sold their land to Robert Morris

Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett purchased Backus Island, now Blennerhassett Island

Thankful friends of Dick Pointer petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom but were refused

Joseph Ruffner first visited his newly acquired land

William Strange was lost in the forests near Holly River

Joseph Tomlinson laid out a town called Elizabethtown

The massacre of the Bozarth family was the last Indian foray in Upshur County

The General Assembly incorporated the Spencer farm as a town

First mentioned in Lewis Summers journals

Robert Clendenin died in Ohio

Henry Harvey graduated from University of Pennsylvania

Dr. John McElhenney moved to Lewisburg

Mary Payne died

Joseph and David Ruffner successfully drilled for brine and erected the first salt furnaces, the Salines

The Ruffner brothers built the first commercial furnace at the Great Buffalo Lick

The Committee on Missions of the Synod of Virginia sent John McElhenney as a Presbyterian evangelist in Greenbrier and Monroe counties

James Swan was imprisoned for debt in France

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin outline a national transportation plan

John Tyler became governor of Virginia