Fairfax Lands

Thomas Lewis surveyed the famous Fairfax Line

George Clendenin was born in Augusta County

The Ohio Company petitioned the king for 500,000 acres to settle the frontier and for permission to trade with the Indians

Frederick Town renamed Winchester

The Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia first appeared

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Lawrence Washington died

Dinwiddie made George Washington a Virginia adjutant with the title of major.

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

Lord Dunmore returned to England

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

General Assembly passed a land law that recognized the rights of original settlers

Berkeley County Courthouse in Martinsburg was completed

Pennsylvania and Virginia agreed that their boundary would be the Mason-Dixon line

The Ohio County courthouse was completed in West Liberty

Rehoboth Church was built in Monroe County, first church west of Alleghenies

Mad Anne Bailey married John Bailey

American troops ended John Amberson's attempts to establish a government for local settlers on present Buffington Island

Clarksburg was chartered

Capt James Neal settled at Parkersburg

Nonhelema, "Grenadier Squaw," petitioned Congress for a grant of land near her Ohio home

The James River Company was formed by Virginia for a water route over the Allegheny Mountains

Virginia authorized construction of the Old State Road, now U.S. 60

The Jefferson Rock was named for Thomas Jefferson

The word moonshine first entered the English language due to brandy smuggling on coasts of Kent and Sussex

Alexander Parker bought land from Thornton in present Parkersburg

Virginia (and consequently West Virginia) gained water rights from Maryland.

Levi Shinn established a local gristmill in present Shinnston