Jesse Hughes

Christopher Gist was chosen by the Ohio Company to explore and survey the frontier west of the Alleghenies

Daniel Greathouse was born

Mary Draper Ingles married William Ingles

Christopher Gist visited the Jackson County area

The Wilson-Woodrow-Mytinger House was built in Romney

There were 1,200 Shawnee living in villages along the Ohio river

George Washington bought land on the South Fork of Bullskin Creek, a Shenandoah River tributary, in present Jefferson County

Dr. Thomas Walker arrived in present Summers County

Thomas Walker led the first recorded expedition into Kentucky

Francis Asbury volunteered to come to America

Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett was born in England

John Yeager, George Strader and Simon Kenton camped near mouth of Elk River in what would become the city of Charleston

Charles Clendenin settled in the Greenbrier Valley

George Clendenin's family settled in the Greenbrier Valley

Harmon Greathouse arrived in present Hancock County

William Crawford made a survey for Washington in the Jackson County area

Simon Kenton began hunting and trapping in the Kanawha Valley

St. George's Chapel was constructed in Jefferson County

Joseph, Samuel, and James Tomlinson established the first settlement at what is now Moundsville

Matthew Arbuckle was active in raising the siege of Fort Donnally

Company under Samuel Lewis left Fort Savannah to assist Fort Donnally

John Stuart led a Company to defend the last attack on Fort Donnally in Lewisburg

Brooke Academy opened in trans-Allegheny Virginia

Dunmore, the southern end of Frederick County, was renamed Shenandoah

Mary Kinnan married Joseph Kinnan

Charles Lee settled in Berkeley County

Levi Shinn built a log house in Harrison County

Adam Stephen's military career was ended at the Battle of Brandywine

John Minear brought machinery for the first sawmill west of the Alleghenies

Jacob Wetzel was captured by the Wyandots

White Sulphur Springs were first reported

There were about 16 churches in present West Virginia

The Greenbrier Association of Baptists established

John Beckley wrote a Jefferson campaign biography

Ephraim and Anna Musick Hatfield moved their family from Russell County, Virginia to the Tug Valley

John George Jackson married Mary Payne

The site of Jackson's Mill was first settled by Edward Jackson

Old State Road was opened to the Ohio River

Joseph Johnson traveled to Winchester, Virginia

George Gregg built a gristmill and sawmill on the Jug of Middle Island Creek

The Hatfields settled in Lincoln County

John Marshall was appointed secretary of state

The first whites settled in Mingo County as farmers

Newport was given a charter

Nicholas Harvey acquired the site of Red Sulpher Springs

John Bunnell built a cabin in Pennsboro

St. Albans was first settled as Coalsmouth

Sampson Sanders settled in Cabell County

Permanent settlement on the Tug Fork began

Henry Jolley established a ferry across the Ohio River at Sistersville

Union was established by General Assembly to be county seat for Monroe County

Fort Gay was the first permanent settlement in Wayne County

The West Fork River was declared a navigable public highway

Isaac Williams was authorized to operate a ferry to carry traffic to the Ohio Shore

Barney McGraw planted the first apple orchard in the Little Kanawha Valley

James Wood left office as governor of Virginia

General Assembly authorized each county to establish district school system with limited state aid

Monroe County opened free school at Sinks Grove

Alexander Clendenin died

Charles Faulkner married Mary W. Boyd

John Floyd graduated from South Carolina College

Felix Grundy was appointed to the U.S. Senate

The South Branch Intelligencer was founded

The Virginia Constitutional Convention failed to meet western demands

The Eclectic Observer was founded in Wheeling

Completion of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike to the Ohio River was authorized by the General Assembly

Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from West Point

William Fletcher received 20 acres of land in Welch

The state of Virginia began blasting and excavating shoals in the Kanawha River including the Red House shoal.

Phillip R. Thompson laid out the town of Phillipi

James Stephenson married Agnes Miller Boreman