Washington's Western Lands

Daniel Boone's family resettled in North Carolina

Peter Burr house constructed in present Jefferson County

John, Thomas, and Andrew Lewis camped in what is now Lewisburg while surverying the area, named the Lewis Spring

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

Lord Fairfax established his residence, Greenway Court, near Winchester, Virginia

Frederick Town renamed Winchester

The Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia first appeared

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Lawrence Washington died

The French and Indian War began with Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity

The French and Indian War began in America

Andrew Lewis was with Washington at Fort Necessity

A proclamation by King George III prohibited settlement west of the Alleghenies

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 Treaty of Paris ended French & Indian War

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 Hard Labor, Cherokees gave up claims to land in western Augusta

Captain Bull and his party released after being captured

Cherokees relinquished claim to land south of the Kanawha River in Treaty of Hard Labor

First Fort Stanwix treaty negotiated when Sir William Johnson met with 3,500 Indians representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois, with representatives present from the governments of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

The Treaties of Hard Labor and Fort Stanwix were signed with the Cherokee and Iroquois

Colonel Zackquill Morgan settled in Monongalia County

Iroquois leaders denied the Treaty of Lancaster and resold the land at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Andrew Lewis helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

The Pringle brothers left their tree home

Iroquois disposed territory in sales to colonial government

John Simpson was the first white person to settle in Taylor County

Englishmen and British Americans unsuccessfully attempted the Vandalia Colony

Governor Dunmore granted land to John Savage and others who served at Battle of Great Meadows

Matthew Arbuckle became first settler in Lewisburg

Boling Baker led band of Shawnees to steal horses from Bluestone River area

Aracoma and her husband Boling Baker were killed by white men

Settlement in present Barbour County began

Fleming Cobb, pioneer scout, planted at least two pear trees that survived.

Castle Rock formation in Pineville reported

Horatio Gates was defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, SC

Charles Washington came to present Jefferson County

Charles Washington built Happy Retreat, at Charles Town

Settlers built their adjoining houses in a rectangle in Harrison County two miles west of Nutter's Fort

Congress dismissed Charles Lee from the army after insulting letters to Congress

Chief Logan was killed, allegedly by a nephew

Methodists establish the earliest class on the Greenbrier Circuit in Union

John Stuart was name clerk of Greenbrier County

Henry St. George Tucker Sr was born

Thomas Walker surveyed the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee

Francis Asbury named the first superintendent of American Methodists

Virginia ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory to the U.S.

George Washington visited the Cheat River

People settled in Monongalia County and Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary War

Clarksburg became the county seat of the new Harrison County

Fort Harmar was established in Marietta, Ohio, as a frontier fort

George Washington exploratory trip into the Ohio Valley encouraged the James River Company

The Rehoboth Methodist Church was established in Monroe County

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots in Morgantown

George Washington visited Zackquill Morgan to discuss possible locations of roads

Yohogania County was dissolved when the Virginia-Pennsylvania border dispute was settled

George Washington and others formed the Potowmack Company

Senecas began allying themselves with the Shawnee

The Mason-Dixon line survey was completed

George Washington died