Ebenezer Zane

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

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

Iroquois disposed territory in sales to colonial government

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

Joseph and Samuel Tomlinson claimed land of Williamstown

William Crawford directed the construction of Fort Fincastle (Fort Henry)

Ferdinando Fairfax was born in Virginia

Isaac Cox transferred his land to John Decker

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

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

The Kinnan family moved to Randolph County

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

Artist John Drinker was active in Pocahontas County

Gen. William Darke voted for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution during the Virginia ratifying convention

Daniel Boone and his family settled near mouth of Kanawha River

Dr. Henry Harvey was born in Fincastle, Virginia

Pendleton County was formed.

Franklin originated as county seat of Pendleton County

David E. Jackson was born

The first Mennonites in West Virginia settled near Lewisburg

George Lemon was born

John Stuart was a member of the Virginia convention that advocated ratification of the U.S. Constitution

Reader, Wetzel County, was settled

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

Indian captive Mary Kinnan's letter arrived in New Jersey

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