Mary Kinnan

Matthew Arbuckle was active in raising the siege of Fort Donnally

Company under Samuel Lewis left Fort Savannah to assist Fort Donnally

John Stuart led a Company to defend the last attack on Fort Donnally in Lewisburg

Brooke Academy opened in trans-Allegheny Virginia

Dunmore, the southern end of Frederick County, was renamed Shenandoah

Indians killed Jesse Hughes's father

Charles Lee settled in Berkeley County

Levi Shinn built a log house in Harrison County

Adam Stephen's military career was ended at the Battle of Brandywine

John Minear brought machinery for the first sawmill west of the Alleghenies

Jacob Wetzel was captured by the Wyandots

White Sulphur Springs were first reported

Col. George Clendenin purchased 1,030 acres from Judge Cuthbert Bullitt at the Mouth of Elk, present Charleston

Francis Asbury broke with the English Methodists established the Methodist Episcopal Church in America

Beverly became the first county seat of Randolph County

Construction began on the first courthouse in Clarksburg

George Clendenin purchased land from Judge Cuthbert Bullitt in Kanawha

James Caldwell patented 20,000 acres in Doddridge County

Virginia legislature chartered Randolph Academy in Clarksburg

St. Paul's in Aurora was established

Boaz Fleming led a part from Milford, Delaware, to present Fairmont

James Rumsey successfully demonstrated a steamboat on the Potomac River in Shepherdstown

James Rumsey tested the steamboat at Shepherdstown

James Swan moved to France

John Augustine Washington died

Rebecca Tomlinson Martin Williams and Isaac Williams permanently settled in Williamstown

Jesse Bennet married Elizabeth Hogg

Campbell mansion built at Bethany

Harman Blennerhassett joined the secret Society of United Irishmen

William Cabell received a law degree from College of William and Mary

Edward Brake Jackson was born

Bishop Asbury again held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

George Steptoe Washington married Lucy Payne

Virginia chartered a company for the improvement of the West Fork River

Ebenezer Zane laid out the town of Wheeling