William Crawford

Daniel Boone served as teamster on Braddock campaign during French & Indian War

Andrew Lewis accompanied Braddock's expedition to Fort Duquesne

Zackquill Morgan fought in Braddock's Expedition

George Washington helped save British Forces from complete destruction at the defeat of General Braddock

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

Zackquill Morgan fought in Forbes's Expedition

George Washington returned to Mount Vernon for a planter's life

Three Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, operated a pincer campaign against Fort Duquesne

Joseph Tomlinson discovered the Grave Creek Mound

The massacre of Captain Bull's band of Delaware Indians by frontiersmen at Bulltown Historic Area

Murder of Adam Stroud's family

Raid on Bull's village

Earliest white settlement made by Dunkards near Kingwood

Lord Dunmore was named governor of Virginia

Isaac Cox built a log house in the Follansbee area

The Tygart Valley was resettled

Horatio Gates returned to America

The John Wetzel family settled along Wheeling Creek in the Northern Panhandle

Wilson-Woodrow-Mytinger House was built in Romney

Nutter's Fort was built on Elk Creek in Harrison County

Jesse Hughes discovered a major tributary to the Little Kanawha River

Wellsburg was settled

Settlers had claimed most of the prime valley lands in Randolph County.

The first white explored the Wirt County area

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 appointed commissioner of Indian affairs

Thomas Walker was a member of the Revolutionary Conventions

The Ohio River flooded

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

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

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

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