French and Indian War

Settlements in the Allegheny Mountains began

Records reveal schoolmasters employed in Romney and Greenbrier settlements

Frederick was divided into two counties

Robert Files and David Tygart families first settled Beverly

Christopher Gist took residence in western Pennsylvania

Christopher Gist guided George Washington on his trip to warn the French away from English claimed land

Kyashuta accompanied George Washington on his mission to warn the French to withdraw from their forts in the Ohio Valley

Ulrich Conrad Sr. from Switzerland settled in Franklin

Andrew Culbertson settled near present Hinton

John Taylor was born

The Potomac River flooded

Washington's disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity began the French and Indian War

The French and Indian War began in America

Andrew Lewis was with Washington at Fort Necessity

Cherokees were allies of West Virginia frontiersmen in Sandy Creek Expedition

The Sandy River was named during Andrew Lewis' "Sandy Creek" expedition

Fort Buttermilk was constructed in spring 1756 to protect the settlers living along the South Branch of the Potomac south of present Moorefield.

Fort Pleasant was constructed

Construction of Fort Stanwix began

Three Dunkard brothers named Eckerlin traveled to the Monongahela River, settling along the Cheat River at present Camp Dawson

Nicholas Carpenter was killed in an Indian attack

Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Fort Stanwix was completed

Families returned to the area after French defeated in upper Ohio Valley

Gen John Forbes captured the Forks of the Ohio and built Fort Pitt at present Pittsburgh

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. John Forbes

Zackquill Morgan fought in Forbes's Expedition

George Washington returned to Mount Vernon for a planter's life

Three Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, operated a pincer campaign against Fort Duquesne

Cornstalk led raiders that killed a family in Virginia

Frederick Ice established Ices Ferry on Monongahela River

Christopher Gist died from smallpox

England controlled key positions in North America

Edward Jackson was born

John Justus Hinkle built a blockhouse and stockade known as Hinkle's Fort

Joist Hite died

The Shenandoah Bloomery property passed to the Fairfax family

Settlers returned to Summers County area

Elizabeth "Betty" Zane was born in the Eastern Panhandle

Batts and Fallam exploration used in French & Indian War treaty negotiations to lay claim for England to the Ohio Valley

Robert Clendenin was injured in a battle with the Shawnee

The French gave up all territories in the Ohio Valley at the end of the French & Indian War

Pontiac's Rebellion followed French & Indian War

Cornstalk raided Greenbrier settlements during Pontiac's War

The French withdrew from North America leaving Ohio a boundary between white and Indian territory

John Semple constructed West Virginia's first blast furnace

Kyashuta directed war efforts against settlers in Pontiac's Rebellion

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in America from England

The Senecas fought in Pontiac's Rebellion

New settlements in Summers County were destroyed during Pontiac's Rebellion

Treaty of Paris ended French and Indian War

Michael Cresap was married to May Whitehead in Philadelphia

John Simpson settled on the West Fork River.