Anthony Wayne

Fairfax lands boundary dispute settled in favor of Lord Fairfax in England

Expansive grants given to Ohio, Greenbrier and Loyal companies

Christopher Gist moved to near the Yadkin River in North Carolina

Petersburg was first settled as Lunice Creek

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Virginia's original constitution went into effect, favoring east over west

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry

John Alderson Jr. began Baptist work in southern West Virginia

Meshach Browning was born in Damascus, Maryland

Captain Bull was killed by white fighters

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

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

Thomas Walker served in the House of Delegates

Webster Springs were discovered by John Acquirer and John Miller

Last time boundaries of Augusta County changed

Daniel Boone represented Kanawha County in General Assembly

Daniel Boone represented Kanawha County in the Virginia General Assembly

General Arthur St. Clair led a disastrous foray into the Ohio country

The Old State Road was improved to the head of navigable water on the Kanawha River

Indian Raids in Monongalia County finally ended

Henry Morris moved to Nicholas County and built a cabin

The Shawnees defeated armies sent against their villages

Charles Prather petitioned Ohio County to incorporate Charlestown, now Wellsburg

The Whiskey Rebellion began

Kentucky County became the state of Kentucky

Harman Blennerhassett inherited the family estate

Daniel Boone moved to Charleston

Joseph Doddridge became first minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Trans-Allegheny Virginia

Congress authorized the building of two national arsenals for the storage of arms

Benjamin Lewis settled in what became Mason County

Logan County was first settled

Bishop Asbury held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

Two of the Morris daughters were killed by the renegade Simon Girty

The Ohio Company went into demise

The Salem Seventh Day Baptist Church was founded in West Virginia

Sutton was settled by Adam O'Brien

The first hotel at Sweet Springs was built by William Lewis

White hunters began to settle in Tyler County

The first gristmill was built on Big Sandy Creek

U.S. raised small army with Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne in command