Seneca

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

Mary Ingles was captured and held by Shawnees

Mary Draper Ingles was carried from Virginia into captivity in Ohio

Fort Ashby was built on John Sellers' farm

Settlers were killed by Indians along Patterson Creek

Evan Watkins farm began serving as outpost and depot for Virginia Regiment

Christopher Gist served as scout for the Virginia military commanded by Washington

John Hale's great-grandmother escaped from the Shawnees

Mary Draper Ingles was taken captive by the Shawnee

Killbuck left the settlers in South Branch Valley with the commencement of hostilities

Kyashuta replaced Half-King as the primary representative of the Six Nations

Revised versions of the Fry-Jefferson maps appeared

George Washington ordered a stockade and fort built in Mineral County

The massacre at Baughman's Fort on the Greenbrier River occurred killing a schoolmaster

All settlements in Summers County area were erased during the French & Indian War

Thomas Walker was at Braddock's defeat

George Washington became colonel of the Virginia Regiment

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

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

Treaty of Paris ended French and Indian War

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

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

English Secretary of State for the Colonies authorized renegotiation of colonies’ western boundary with the Indians

Arbuckle's Fort was occupied by another militia company

Settlers reported hearing gunshots near Arbuckle's Fort

Fort Henry was enlarged to enclose a half acre

Hampshire County encompassed 2,800 miles

Isaac Ballengee received a land grant in the area of Hinton

James Conner made extensive exploration of the area of Hurricane after receiving land grants from Virginia

Ulrich Conrad's son inherited the McCoy's mill before handing it off the William McCoy

The Graham house was attacked by Shawnee raiders from the Ohio Valley

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

The Mason-Dixon line survey was completed

Governor Benjamin Harrison granted land to Washington in present Dunbar and St. Albans, and also in present Marshall County