Horatio Gates

The Shawnee began to return to the Ohio Valley, leaving western Pennsylvania

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

The Tygart Valley was resettled

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

Buckongahelas' son Mahonegon was killed by Capt. William White

Burning Springs discovered by Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

George Fairfax stopped working as Lord Fairfax's agent

Daniel Davisson claimed land through settlement in Harrison County

Walter Kelly was credited as the first settlement despite being killed after a year

Charles Lee returned to America

Martinsburg was laid out by Gen. Adam Stephens

Edward Dulin was the first white settler in New Martinsville

Robert Thornton claimed 400 acres in Parkersburg.

Horatio Gate purchased property in present Jefferson County

Vienna was first settled

The Continental Congress ordered the formation of Virginia riflemen to aid George Washington's forces at Boston

Michael Cresap elected captain of First Company, Maryland Rifles

Zackquill Morgan fought with General Gates at the Battle of Saratoga

Matthew Arbuckle became first settler in Lewisburg

Boling Baker led band of Shawnees to steal horses from Bluestone River area

Aracoma and her husband Boling Baker were killed by white men

Settlement in present Barbour County began

Fleming Cobb, pioneer scout, planted at least two pear trees that survived.

Castle Rock formation in Pineville reported

Charles Washington came to present Jefferson County

Charles Washington built Happy Retreat, at Charles Town

Settlers built their adjoining houses in a rectangle in Harrison County two miles west of Nutter's Fort

Congress dismissed Charles Lee from the army after insulting letters to Congress

Chief Logan was killed, allegedly by a nephew

Methodists establish the earliest class on the Greenbrier Circuit in Union

John Stuart was name clerk of Greenbrier County

Henry St. George Tucker Sr was born

Thomas Walker surveyed the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina

Governor Thomas Jefferson granted 250 acres at Burning Springs in Kanawha County jointly to Washington and Andrew Lewis

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee

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

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

The first U.S. Census found the population of the territory now comprising West Virginia to be 55,873

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