Savage Grant

Earl of Dunmore executed patents granting lands to a number of officers and men of the First Virginia Regiment

Western Virginia land grant gave 200,000 acres of land to Bruen

Richard Watson printed Christian Panoply, the first book printed in present West Virginia

Joseph Ruffner purchased 502 acres of land at Campbells Creek

John Dickinson conveyed a tract of 704 acres to Samuel and John Shrewsbury

An alderman system was authorized

William Beauchamp settled in the area of present Elizabeth

George, William and Alexander Clendenin sold Fort Lee to Joseph Ruffner

Joseph Ruffner arrived in the Kanawha Valley

Bishop Asbury again held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

Construction began on a more substantial courthouse for Ohio County

Walter Newman erected a hewn-log house at Point Pleasant which still stands today

David Ruffner finally left old Virginia

William Ice and Aiden Bales pioneered Grant District, Wetzel County

Obadiah Paden settle Paden City

Ebenezer Zane blazed his trace to Maysville, Kentucky

James Wood became governor of Virginia

First recorded permanent settler, Phillip Starcher of present Calhoun County

Virginia established a "Literary Fund" for support of education

The General Assembly recognized the new village of Guyandotte

The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld David Hunter's claim to 739 acres of the former Fairfax lands

The Bye-Stander was established in Clarksburg

Newport was rechartered and named Parkersburg after Captain Parker.

John Webster bought the property of John Bunnell and built the Old Stone House, in present Pennsboro, Ritchie County

Berkeley County had a water-powered textile industry

Methodists organized their first church in Upshur County

The Old Stone House at Belle was built by Samuel Shrewsbury

The William Clark House was built

The Potomac River flooded