Chief Logan

Buckongahelas was born

Present Hampshire County was first visited by Europeans

Kyashuta was born in New York

Francis Asbury is part of the Methodist movement in England

Botetourt County formed from southern half of Augusta

John Corbly settled in the Morgantown area

John Sutton formed the Simpson Creek Baptist Church in Harrison County

Adam Stephen purchased 255 acres of land in present Berkeley County and laid out Martinsburg

Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York

William Stewart came from Ireland to the Forks of Cheat in present Monongalia County

Col. George Washington and Dr. James Craik claimed land in the Ohio watershed on their canoe trip

Killbuck died at the Delaware village in present Coshocton, Ohio

While hunting, Kyashuta encounters George Washington on his canoe trip

The upper watershed of the Little Kanawha was explored by John Hacker

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

Samuel McColloch emigrated from the South Branch of the Potomac to Wheeling

A survey party led by George Washington visited the present Point Pleasant area in Mason County

George Washington surveyed the present Ravenswood area in Jackson County and later acquired 2,448 acres there

Jesse Hughes became the first European to enter Roane County

John Stuart built the first mill in Greenbrier County

Joseph Tomlinson and brother Samuel Tomlinson settled in the Ohio Valley frontier

The Treaty of Lochaber secured for Britain any lands in the Western Virginia region not covered by the Treaty of Hard Labor

George Washington wrote the first written accounts of the forests of present West Virginia

A permanent settlement was made in the Buckhannon Valley

A log house was built by James Byrnside in Union

Samuel Washington built his house Harewood in present Jefferson County

Chief Logan turned on the settlers and led several retaliatory raids

Chief Logan had four raids on white settlements during the summer

Kyashuta urged his associates to refrain from war against the Virginians

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

Congress dismissed Charles Lee from the army after insulting letters to Congress

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