Joist Hite

Alexander Spotswood became lieutenant governor of Virginia

Earliest recorded settlement by Morgan Morgan near Bunker Hill in present Berkeley County; Morgan Morgan is later credited as the first white settler in present West Virginia

Mary Draper Ingles was born in Philadelphia

Occasional Indian raids continued in Virginia

John Justus Hinkle built a blockhouse and stockade known as Hinkle's Fort

The Shenandoah Bloomery property passed to the Fairfax family

Settlers returned to Summers County area

Elizabeth "Betty" Zane was born in the Eastern Panhandle