Ostenaco

English began trading furs in the Jackson County area

Louis Michel wrote of his plans to visit the western mountains from Pennsylvania

Fort Pitt named

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Fort Stanwix was completed

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

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

Horatio Gates was defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, SC

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