Fort Savannah

Daniel Boone's family resettled in North Carolina

Peter Burr house constructed in present Jefferson County

John and Andrew Lewis discovered Marlin and Sewell living in present Pocahontas County during their survey

Christopher Gist made a second expedition for the Ohio Company

Christopher Gist was the first European to record a visit in present Marshall County while exploring for the Ohio Company

Christopher Gist surveyed the Ohio Valley as far as the Kanawha River

Robert Dinwiddie became governor of colonial Virginia

Capt. Arbuckle's troops join Gen. Lewis's march to Point Pleasant

George Clendenin accompanied Col. Andrew Lewis to Point Pleasant

Matthew Arbuckle was active in raising the siege of 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

Charles Lee settled in Berkeley County

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

A Shawnee raid in Russell County widowed and kidnapped Anna Musick

Samuel McColloch was killed in another Indian ambush

William Miller was born

Lydia Shepherd married Moses Shepherd

Bush's Fort was destroyed by Indians

Thomas Walker served in the House of Delegates

Mad Anthony Wayne served against the Creeks and Cherokees

Webster Springs were discovered by John Acquirer and John Miller

John Beckley married Maria Prince

Beverly was chartered and named after governor Beverley Randolph

Charles Clendenin died

Horatio Gates sold his property and freed all of his slaves

Obadiah Paden settled between New Martinsville and Sistersville, in what is now Paden City

The first U.S. Census found the population of the territory now comprising West Virginia to be 55,873

St. Mary's was settled

The Shawnees defeated armies sent against their villages

Indians attacked Fort Tackett, kidnapping several people

Owen Neel II built a log house near Gap Mills

Bushrod Corbin Washington was born

John Wyatt settles Pine Grove