Thomas Walker

Fairfax established an office to sell land

Washington surveying team noted one of the earliest schools in Moorefield area

Moravian missionary reported the amount of Germans in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties

Reported 200 people were living at Pearsall's Flats

Levi Shinn was born

George Washington described the Trough on the South Branch in his journal

Thomas Beall was born

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

Daniel Greathouse was born

Jesse Hughes was born near the Potomac South Branch

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

Lord Fairfax established his residence, Greenway Court, near Winchester, Virginia

Frederick Town renamed Winchester

The Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia first appeared

Lawrence Washington died

Dinwiddie made George Washington a Virginia adjutant with the title of major.

Governor Dinwiddie set aside 200,000 acres of land for men who served in the French & Indian War

Alexander Clendenin was born in Augusta County

Hampshire County was created

William Fairfax commanded the Alexandria volunteers against the French and Indians in the Shenandoah valley

Kyashuta directed war efforts against the settlers during the French & Indian War

The Loyal Company had settled about 200 families on its lands

Mary Ingles was captured and held by Shawnees

Mary Draper Ingles was carried from Virginia into captivity in Ohio

Fort Ashby was built on John Sellers' farm

Settlers were killed by Indians along Patterson Creek

Evan Watkins farm began serving as outpost and depot for Virginia Regiment

Christopher Gist served as scout for the Virginia military commanded by Washington

John Hale's great-grandmother escaped from the Shawnees

Mary Draper Ingles was taken captive by the Shawnee

Killbuck left the settlers in South Branch Valley with the commencement of hostilities

Kyashuta replaced Half-King as the primary representative of the Six Nations

Revised versions of the Fry-Jefferson maps appeared

George Washington ordered a stockade and fort built in Mineral County

The massacre at Baughman's Fort on the Greenbrier River occurred killing a schoolmaster

The Senecas allied themselves with the French at the Battle of the Monongahela

All settlements in Summers County area were erased during the French & Indian War

George Washington became colonel of the Virginia Regiment

Fort Pleasant was constructed

Construction of Fort Stanwix began

Washington organized small chain of forts in the South Branch and Potomac valleys

Three Dunkard brothers named Eckerlin traveled to the Monongahela River, settling along the Cheat River at present Camp Dawson

Nicholas Carpenter was killed in an Indian attack

Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

William Crawford directed the construction of Fort Fincastle (Fort Henry)

Ferdinando Fairfax was born in Virginia

Isaac Cox transferred his land to John Decker

Fort Henry at Wheeling was constructed

Hurricane Creek received its name by a group of surveyors

William Morris and others settled at Cedar Grove in Kanawha County

Simon Kenton served as a frontier scout in the Muskingum War

The county jail of Martinsburg was completed

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was born

Paint Creek was named

Pricketts Fort was built at the confluence of Pricketts Creek and the Monongahela River by Capt. Jacob Prickett

The Lewis Trail became an early route over Sewell Mountain

The Boggs family settled near Wheeling

Union was settled by James Alexander

Thomas Walker was a member of the Revolutionary Conventions

The Ohio River flooded

Burning Springs were included in a survey for Gens. George Washington and Andrew Lewis

Thomas Bullitt surveyed much of present downtown Charleston

Forks of Cheat Baptist Church organized at Stewartstown

First reference to current name of Droop Mountain

Indians burned down Fort Blair at Point Pleasant

Chief Cornstalk and other Ohio chiefs signed the Treaty of Pittsburgh

First detailed description of Grave Creek Mound by Nicholas Cresswell

The Morris family had settled and established a boat yard on the Kanawha River

William Morris claimed lands in Nicholas County

Gen. Charles Lee purchased the original log house of Prato Rio.

The Mequashake Shawnees led by Cornstalk adopted neutrality during the American Revolution

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

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

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee

Virginia Assembly decreed 40 acre tract to create Lewisburg

A Shawnee raid in Russell County widowed and kidnapped Anna Musick

Samuel McColloch was killed in another Indian ambush

William Miller was born

Lydia Shepherd married Moses Shepherd

Bush's Fort was destroyed by Indians

Mad Anthony Wayne served against the Creeks and Cherokees

Webster Springs were discovered by John Acquirer and John Miller