The Frontier

Michel examined lands around junction of Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, present Harpers Ferry

Christopher Gist was born near Baltimore

John Jackson was born

Joist Hite moved to the Shenandoah valley

Mary Draper Ingles was born in Philadelphia

Fairfax lands boundary dispute settled in favor of Lord Fairfax in England

Christopher Gist moved to near the Yadkin River in North Carolina

Petersburg was first settled as Lunice Creek

"Mad Anthony" Wayne was born

Daniel Boone's family resettled in North Carolina

Peter Burr house constructed in present Jefferson County

John, Thomas, and Andrew Lewis camped in what is now Lewisburg while surverying the area, named the Lewis Spring

Christopher Gist made a second expedition for the Ohio Company

Christopher Gist was the first European to record a visit in present Marshall County while exploring for the Ohio Company

Christopher Gist surveyed the Ohio Valley as far as the Kanawha River

Robert Dinwiddie became governor of colonial Virginia

Settlements in the Allegheny Mountains began

Records reveal schoolmasters employed in Romney and Greenbrier settlements

Frederick was divided into two counties

Governor Dinwiddie sent George Washington to upper Ohio to warn French out of Ohio Valley

Christopher Gist took residence in western Pennsylvania

Christopher Gist guided George Washington on his trip to warn the French away from English claimed land

Kyashuta accompanied George Washington on his mission to warn the French to withdraw from their forts in the Ohio Valley

Ulrich Conrad Sr. from Switzerland settled in Franklin

Andrew Culbertson settled near present Hinton

John Taylor was born

The Potomac River flooded

Fort Pitt named

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Fort Stanwix was completed

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

Michael Cresap was married to May Whitehead in Philadelphia

An uneasy peace settled over the Ohio Valley, though the issue of who would control the region remained unsettled

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

First Fort Stanwix treaty negotiated when Sir William Johnson met with 3,500 Indians representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois, with representatives present from the governments of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

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

Matthew Arbuckle's first post was gentleman justice of Botetourt County

Development of the land called Grand Ohio Company, Vandalia Company and Walpole Company organized

John Beckley was sent to Virginia

Families descended the rivers and settled in the bottomlands of the Ohio

Waves of pioneers began to sweep into the upper Ohio, Monongahela, Greenbrier and Kanawha valleys

The first white people settled in present Lewis County

The first white settlers in Marshall County were John Wetzel and his family

The Zane brothers were the first white men to settle in present Ohio County

The Pringle brothers led a small group of settlers back to the Buckhannon Valley to begin a permanent settlement there.

John Stuart was a surveyor in the expedition to establish a permanent settlement in Greenbrier

Adam Stroud settled in present Webster County as the first white settler

Francis Asbury is part of the Methodist movement in England

Botetourt County formed from southern half of Augusta

John Corbly settled in the Morgantown area

John Sutton formed the Simpson Creek Baptist Church in Harrison County

Adam Stephen purchased 255 acres of land in present Berkeley County and laid out Martinsburg

Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York

William Stewart came from Ireland to the Forks of Cheat in present Monongalia County

Killbuck died at the Delaware village in present Coshocton, Ohio

While hunting, Kyashuta encounters George Washington on his canoe trip

The upper watershed of the Little Kanawha was explored by John Hacker

Chief Logan moved his family to the Ohio Valley

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

Samuel McColloch emigrated from the South Branch of the Potomac to Wheeling

A survey party led by George Washington visited the present Point Pleasant area in Mason County

George Washington surveyed the present Ravenswood area in Jackson County and later acquired 2,448 acres there

Jesse Hughes became the first European to enter Roane County

John Stuart built the first mill in Greenbrier County

Joseph Tomlinson and brother Samuel Tomlinson settled in the Ohio Valley frontier

The Treaty of Lochaber secured for Britain any lands in the Western Virginia region not covered by the Treaty of Hard Labor

George Washington wrote the first written accounts of the forests of present West Virginia

A permanent settlement was made in the Buckhannon Valley

A log house was built by James Byrnside in Union

Samuel Washington built his house Harewood in present Jefferson County

Joseph Tomlinson discovered the Grave Creek Mound

The massacre of Captain Bull's band of Delaware Indians by frontiersmen at Bulltown Historic Area

Murder of Adam Stroud's family

Raid on Bull's village

Earliest white settlement made by Dunkards near Kingwood

William Crawford surveyed and registered land in present West Virginia for George Washington

Lord Dunmore was named governor of Virginia

Isaac Cox built a log house in the Follansbee area

Horatio Gates returned to America

The John Wetzel family settled along Wheeling Creek in the Northern Panhandle

Wilson-Woodrow-Mytinger House was built in Romney

Nutter's Fort was built on Elk Creek in Harrison County

Jesse Hughes discovered a major tributary to the Little Kanawha River

Wellsburg was settled

Settlers had claimed most of the prime valley lands in Randolph County.

The first white explored the Wirt County area

Francis Asbury named the first superintendent of American Methodists

Virginia ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory to the U.S.

George Washington visited the Cheat River

Clarksburg became the county seat of the new Harrison County

Fort Harmar was established in Marietta, Ohio, as a frontier fort

George Washington exploratory trip into the Ohio Valley encouraged the James River Company

The Rehoboth Methodist Church was established in Monroe County

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots in Morgantown

George Washington visited Zackquill Morgan to discuss possible locations of roads

Yohogania County was dissolved when the Virginia-Pennsylvania border dispute was settled

George Washington and others formed the Potowmack Company

Senecas began allying themselves with the Shawnee

The Mason-Dixon line survey was completed

Governor Benjamin Harrison granted land to Washington in present Dunbar and St. Albans, and also in present Marshall County

Rehoboth Church was built in Monroe County, first church west of Alleghenies

Mad Anne Bailey married John Bailey

American troops ended John Amberson's attempts to establish a government for local settlers on present Buffington Island

Clarksburg was chartered

Virginia Assembly abolished the Fairfax proprietary

Nonhelema, "Grenadier Squaw," petitioned Congress for a grant of land near her Ohio home

The James River Company was formed by Virginia for a water route over the Allegheny Mountains

Virginia authorized construction of the Old State Road, now U.S. 60

The Jefferson Rock was named for Thomas Jefferson

The word moonshine first entered the English language due to brandy smuggling on coasts of Kent and Sussex

Alexander Parker bought land from Thornton in present Parkersburg

Virginia (and consequently West Virginia) gained water rights from Maryland.

Levi Shinn established a local gristmill in present Shinnston

John Beckley married Maria Prince

Beverly was chartered and named after governor Beverley Randolph

Charles Clendenin died

"Mad Anne" Bailey made 100-mile dash from besieged Fort Lee to Fort Union in Lewisburg for gunpowder

Horatio Gates sold his property and freed all of his slaves

Obadiah Paden settled between New Martinsville and Sistersville, in what is now Paden City

St. Mary's was settled

The Shawnees defeated armies sent against their villages

Indians attacked Fort Tackett, kidnapping several people

Owen Neel II built a log house near Gap Mills

Bushrod Corbin Washington was born

John Wyatt settles Pine Grove