Lord Dunmore

The Lewis family emigrated to America

John Lewis settled near Staunton and built a fort

Lord Fairfax took control of the Fairfax lands after mother's death

William Fairfax ended his service as collector of customs in Boston

Joist Hite led party of 16 families into the lower Shenandoah Valley

A fire destroyed Christopher Gist's storehouse of furs, leaving him poor

George Washington was born

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

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

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

Joseph Tomlinson discovered the Grave Creek Mound

The massacre of Captain Bull's band of Delaware Indians by frontiersmen at Bulltown Historic Area

Murder of Adam Stroud's family

Raid on Bull's village

Earliest white settlement made by Dunkards near Kingwood

William Crawford surveyed and registered land in present West Virginia for George Washington

Isaac Cox built a log house in the Follansbee area

The Tygart Valley was resettled

Horatio Gates returned to America

The John Wetzel family settled along Wheeling Creek in the Northern Panhandle

Wilson-Woodrow-Mytinger House was built in Romney

Nutter's Fort was built on Elk Creek in Harrison County

Jesse Hughes discovered a major tributary to the Little Kanawha River

Wellsburg was settled

Settlers had claimed most of the prime valley lands in Randolph County.

The first white explored the Wirt County area

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Virginia's original constitution went into effect, favoring east over west

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry