Shawnee

Horatio Gates was born in England

Isaac Van Meter settled in present Hardy County

The Draper family moved to Draper's Meadow (Blacksburg, Virginia)

A treaty conference was held between representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia and delegates from the Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora tribes; Virginia negotiators were able to buy their claim to the Ohio Valley in the Treaty of Lancaster

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

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

Treaty of Hard Labor, Cherokees gave up claims to land in western Augusta

Captain Bull and his party released after being captured

Cherokees relinquished claim to land south of the Kanawha River in Treaty of Hard Labor

First Fort Stanwix treaty negotiated when Sir William Johnson met with 3,500 Indians representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois, with representatives present from the governments of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

The Treaties of Hard Labor and Fort Stanwix were signed with the Cherokee and Iroquois

Colonel Zackquill Morgan settled in Monongalia County

Iroquois leaders denied the Treaty of Lancaster and resold the land at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Andrew Lewis helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

The Pringle brothers left their tree home

John Simpson was the first white person to settle in Taylor County

Englishmen and British Americans unsuccessfully attempted the Vandalia Colony

English Secretary of State for the Colonies authorized renegotiation of colonies’ western boundary with the Indians

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.

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Western Land was offered in payment to Revolutionary War veterans

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots

Zackquill Morgan became the proprietor of an "ordinary" (Tavern or inn)

Zackquill Morgan had Morgantown surveyed on his land

The recorded owner of Organ cave was John Gardner

John McCue planted churches in Lewisburg, Union, and Spring Creek.

The Tomlinson family returned to the Grave Creek area

John Thornton Augustine Washington was born

John Beckley married Maria Prince

Beverly was chartered and named after governor Beverley Randolph

Charles Clendenin died

"Mad Anne" Bailey made 100-mile dash from besieged Fort Lee to Fort Union in Lewisburg for gunpowder

Horatio Gates sold his property and freed all of his slaves

Obadiah Paden settled between New Martinsville and Sistersville, in what is now Paden City

The first U.S. Census found the population of the territory now comprising West Virginia to be 55,873

St. Mary's was settled

Indians attacked Fort Tackett, kidnapping several people

Owen Neel II built a log house near Gap Mills

Bushrod Corbin Washington was born

John Wyatt settles Pine Grove

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

Mad Anthony Wayne represented Georgia in the House of Representatives

Charles Prather petitioned Ohio County to incorporate Charlestown, now Wellsburg

The Whiskey Rebellion began