Point Pleasant

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

Chief Logan moved his family to the Ohio Valley

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

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

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

John Alderson Jr. began Baptist work in southern West Virginia

Meshach Browning was born in Damascus, Maryland

Captain Bull was killed by white fighters

Fort Schuyler was destroyed by flood and fire

Johann Dahle settled in Pendleton County

Virginia confiscated Lord Fairfax's lands after his death

An Indian raid occurred in Pendleton County.

Hampshire County Loyalists led by John Claypool began to resist imposition of taxes and a military draft by the Virginia Assembly

Samuel Washington died

Mad Anthony Wayne served under Nathaniel Greene in Georgia

Wedding of Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison at Harewood

Jesse Bennet performed the first cesarean section in America

Harman Blennerhassett married his niece Margaret Agnew

Wayne and army advanced into the Maumee Valley of Ohio

Battle of Fallen Timbers which defeated Ohio Valley Indians led to disuse of forts

Congress authorized the building of two armories for the manufacture of small arms

President George Washington received congressional approval to establish armories and arsenals throughout the nation

The Peter Tarr Furnace was established in present Hancock County, the first iron furnace west of the mountains

Blaker's Mill water-powered gristmill was constructed in Alderson

Kyashuta died in southwestern Pennsylvania

The Whiskey Rebellion occurred

Joseph Ruffner purchased land from John Dickinson at Charleston

Dr. Joseph Spencer permanently settled Vienna

The Whiskey Rebellion ended

Western Virginia land grant gave 200,000 acres of land to Bruen

Richard Watson printed Christian Panoply, the first book printed in present West Virginia

Joseph Ruffner purchased 502 acres of land at Campbells Creek

John Dickinson conveyed a tract of 704 acres to Samuel and John Shrewsbury

An alderman system was authorized

William Beauchamp settled in the area of present Elizabeth

George, William and Alexander Clendenin sold Fort Lee to Joseph Ruffner

Joseph Ruffner arrived in the Kanawha Valley

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

Construction began on a more substantial courthouse for Ohio County

David Ruffner finally left old Virginia

Thomas and Jonathan Buffington came to the mouth of the Guyandotte River to take possession of land

William Ice and Aiden Bales pioneered Grant District, Wetzel County

Obadiah Paden settle Paden City

Ebenezer Zane blazed his trace to Maysville, Kentucky

James Wood became governor of Virginia

Gov. Cabell bought 4,400 acres of land inCabell County

Clarksburg chosen as site of first federal court west of Alleghenies

Romney's Literary Society was founded

President James Monroe appointed John George Jackson a federal judge

The first steamboat tried to get up over Red House Shoals

Western commerce was crushed by the Panic

The Lewis County seat became Weston

Henry Ruffner organized two Presbyterian congregations from which came Kanawha Salines in Malden and the Kanawha Church of Charleston

Oil was produced by George Lemon in Wirt County

The Robert Thompson was the first steamboat to attempt to get to Charleston

The Literary Society was founded

Henry Ruffner began teaching ancient languages at Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

Richard Henry Lee Washington died

Thomas Beall died

Weston became the permanent name of the town

Dr. Sydenham Herford graduated from Jefferson Medical College

A high school was established in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Glenville

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal came to Harpers Ferry

Harrisville's first post office opened

Samuel Kercheval published A History of the Valley of Virginia in Winchester

Buffalo was laid out and incorporated

The Red Sulphur Springs property was purchased by Dr. William Burke

The town of Solus (present Harrisville) became known by that name

John Stuart's book Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences was published

Sam Vinson was born

Waitman Willey began law practice in Morgantown