Charles Lee

Buckongahelas' son Mahonegon was killed by Capt. William White

Burning Springs discovered by Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

George Fairfax stopped working as Lord Fairfax's agent

Horatio Gates built his home, Traveller's Rest, in Berkeley County

Daniel Davisson claimed land through settlement in Harrison County

Walter Kelly was credited as the first settlement despite being killed after a year

Martinsburg was laid out by Gen. Adam Stephens

Edward Dulin was the first white settler in New Martinsville

Robert Thornton claimed 400 acres in Parkersburg.

Horatio Gate purchased property in present Jefferson County

Vienna was first settled

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

Mary Kinnan married Joseph Kinnan

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

Matthew Arbuckle became first settler in Lewisburg

Boling Baker led band of Shawnees to steal horses from Bluestone River area

Aracoma and her husband Boling Baker were killed by white men

Settlement in present Barbour County began

Fleming Cobb, pioneer scout, planted at least two pear trees that survived.

Castle Rock formation in Pineville reported

Horatio Gates was defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, SC

Charles Washington came to present Jefferson County

Charles Washington built Happy Retreat, at Charles Town

Settlers built their adjoining houses in a rectangle in Harrison County two miles west of Nutter's Fort

Chief Logan was killed, allegedly by a nephew

Methodists establish the earliest class on the Greenbrier Circuit in Union

John Stuart was name clerk of Greenbrier County

Henry St. George Tucker Sr was born

Thomas Walker surveyed the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina

Governor Thomas Jefferson granted 250 acres at Burning Springs in Kanawha County jointly to Washington and Andrew Lewis

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee