Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Boone's first visit to Kentucky

Samuel Kercheval was born in Frederick County, Virginia

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were halted by hostile Indians in present Monongalia County

David Ruffner was born

Development of the land called Grand Ohio Company, Vandalia Company and Walpole Company organized

John Beckley was sent to Virginia

Colonists began returning to the Greenbrier Valley.

Families descended the rivers and settled in the bottomlands of the Ohio

Waves of pioneers began to sweep into the upper Ohio, Monongahela, Greenbrier and Kanawha valleys

The first white people settled in present Lewis County

The first white settlers in Marshall County were John Wetzel and his family

The Zane brothers were the first white men to settle in present Ohio County

The Pringle brothers led a small group of settlers back to the Buckhannon Valley to begin a permanent settlement there.

John Stuart was a surveyor in the expedition to establish a permanent settlement in Greenbrier

Adam Stroud settled in present Webster County as the first white settler

Andrew Lewis marched a frontier army from Camp Union, present Lewisburg, to the Ohio River

George Clendenin accompanied Col. Andrew Lewis to Point Pleasant

Company under Samuel Lewis left Fort Savannah to assist Fort Donnally

John Stuart led a Company to defend the last attack on Fort Donnally in Lewisburg

Brooke Academy opened in trans-Allegheny Virginia

Dunmore, the southern end of Frederick County, was renamed Shenandoah

Indians killed Jesse Hughes's father

Mary Kinnan married Joseph Kinnan

Charles Lee settled in Berkeley County

Levi Shinn built a log house in Harrison County

Adam Stephen's military career was ended at the Battle of Brandywine

John Minear brought machinery for the first sawmill west of the Alleghenies

Jacob Wetzel was captured by the Wyandots

White Sulphur Springs were first reported

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

Governor Thomas Jefferson granted 250 acres at Burning Springs in Kanawha County jointly to Washington and Andrew Lewis

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee

A Tory insurgency was aborted in Pendleton County