Patrick Gass

Jesse Bennet, wife, and daughter moved to Mason County

Buffington purchased the island, now Buffington Island

Elisha Brooks built the first salt furnace in the Charleston area

Book issued in Shepherdstown by P. Rootes and C. Blagrove

William Clendenin moved his family to Mason County

George Clendenin died in Marietta, Ohio

Salt furnaces in Kanawha County began

Jesse Bennet and family moved to Point Pleasant

The General Assembly created Brooke County from northern Ohio County

William Parson and Samuel Tanner settled in the Jackson County area

John J. Allen was born

Elisha Brooks built his salt furnace on land from Joseph Ruffner

Simon Kenton lost his wife in a fire

The Impartial Observer was founded in Shepherdstown

Pleasants County saw its first permanent settlers.

Anne Newport married William Royall

Lewis Ruffner was born

Walter Newman built a tavern at Point Pleasant

The William Little family settled Littleton

Wheeling became the county seat of Ohio County

Oceana was established

John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress

Hamlin was first settled by David Stephenson

Mathias and Lydia Harman were the firsts whites to settle in McDowell County

The federal government proposed an all-weather road to connect eastern markets with the Ohio watershed

Sampson Sanders built his inheritance into the largest land holding in Cabell County

Charles Wells founded Wells Landing (now Sistersville)

Buckongahelas signed the Fort Wayne Treaty

Ferries operated across both Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers

John George Jackson elected to Congress from the First District of Virginia

The Old State Road underwent major repairs

Residents established the first school of Morgantown

Joseph Ruffner died

St. George's Chapel was abandoned due to the loss of endowments and property by the Anglican Church

Aaron Burr and accomplice Harman Blennerhassett were arrested

Alexander Campbell's father, Thomas Campbell, migrated to Washington, Pennsylvania

Felix Grundy resigned from the Kentucky Supreme Court

Thomas Harris moved his family to Harrisville

Joseph Johnson acquired additional acreage on Simpson Creek

Kingwood was settled

Bishop James Madison's maps appeared

The Wheeling Repository was established

William Parsons built the first road between Clarksburg and Point Pleasant

Thomas Harris moved westward from Clarksburg

The Halcyon Church declined

Levi Shinn died

Johann Stifel was born

James Caldwell land in West Union (Doddridge County) was sold, and settled by Nathan, William, and Joseph Davis

Alexander Henderson exposed the treasonous plans of Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett

Barboursville was designated the county seat of Cabell County

Indian trail extended to Barboursville

Dr. Eli Herman Moore was born in Brooke County

Joel Shrewsbury and William Dickinson Sr. moved their salt business to the Kanawha Salines (Malden)

Linsly Institute in Wheeling was founded

Felix Grundy resigned from Congress

Joseph Johnson marched his company north to Norfolk

The Charlestown Gazette was established in Wellsburg

The first glass plant in West Virginia was built in Wellsburg

The Summers family moved to Walnut Grove

Tyler County was created

Roman Bath house constructed in Morgan County at Berkeley Springs State Park

James Otis Watson was born in Fairmont

Dr. Richard Ellis Putney set up practice in Malden

Claude Crozet ended term with Napoleon at his defeat at Waterloo

The stockade at Fort Lee was torn down

Stockton's Tavern, later known as the Glen Ferris Inn, was built by two Irishmen

Reported 52 salt furnaces were operating along the Kanawha River for a distance of ten miles east of Charleston

A small settlement began to farm near the present day eastern corporate limits of Hurricane

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Delegates

Maps for the Virginia Board of Public Works began being published

Daniel Ruffner built Holly Grove mansion in Charleston

Asa Shinn laid out town lots in present Shinnston

The daughters of Charles Wells laid out town lots for Sistersville

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

The first general conference of the clergy of the Church of the United Brethren was held

A log House was built in Union

Cabell County troops fought at the Battle of New Orleans