Bulltown

Mad Anne Bailey married Richard Trotter

First mention of Blennerhassett Island in journal of Indian trader George Croghan

St. Peter's Lutheran Church was established at Shepherdstown

John "Hunter John" Myers was born

Maj. John Hansford was born in Orange County

The British Stamp Act was passed

John Alderson Jr. began Baptist work in southern West Virginia

Meshach Browning was born in Damascus, Maryland

Fort Schuyler was destroyed by flood and fire

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

Stonewall Jackson withdrew from Harpers Ferry

Nathan Goff Jr. joined the Union service in the Civil War

Federal troops seized the gold deposited by Virginia in a Weston bank for the construction of Weston Hospital