Fort Stanwix Treaties

Fort Pleasant was constructed

Washington organized small chain of forts in the South Branch and Potomac valleys

Three Dunkard brothers named Eckerlin traveled to the Monongahela River, settling along the Cheat River at present Camp Dawson

Nicholas Carpenter was killed in an Indian attack

Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Fort Pitt named

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Families returned to the area after French defeated in upper Ohio Valley

Gen John Forbes captured the Forks of the Ohio and built Fort Pitt at present Pittsburgh

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. John Forbes

Zackquill Morgan fought in Forbes's Expedition

George Washington returned to Mount Vernon for a planter's life

Three Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, operated a pincer campaign against Fort Duquesne

Treaty of Hard Labor, Cherokees gave up claims to land in western Augusta

Captain Bull and his party released after being captured

Cherokees relinquished claim to land south of the Kanawha River in Treaty of Hard Labor

The Treaties of Hard Labor and Fort Stanwix were signed with the Cherokee and Iroquois

Colonel Zackquill Morgan settled in Monongalia County

Iroquois leaders denied the Treaty of Lancaster and resold the land at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Andrew Lewis helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

The Pringle brothers left their tree home

Iroquois disposed territory in sales to colonial government

John Simpson was the first white person to settle in Taylor County

Englishmen and British Americans unsuccessfully attempted the Vandalia Colony

English Secretary of State for the Colonies authorized renegotiation of colonies’ western boundary with the Indians

John Alderson Jr. began Baptist work in southern West Virginia

Meshach Browning was born in Damascus, Maryland

Captain Bull was killed by white fighters

Johann Dahle settled in Pendleton County

Virginia confiscated Lord Fairfax's lands after his death

An Indian raid occurred in Pendleton County.

Settlers were established in the area of Point Pleasant.

Hampshire County Loyalists led by John Claypool began to resist imposition of taxes and a military draft by the Virginia Assembly

Samuel Washington died

Mad Anthony Wayne served under Nathaniel Greene in Georgia