Batts and Fallam Expedition

Abraham Wood dispatched Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam to explore the Appalachian Mountains

Archibald Clendenin died

Lord Fairfax and Joist Hite engaged in a lawsuit

Jacob Marlin and Stephen Sewell, first white residents of the Greenbrier Valley, arrived in what is now Marlinton

The French expedition under Celeron de Blainville landed at Wheeling

Celoron de Blainville buried a lead plate at the Tu-Endie-Wei

Christian Newcomer, United Brethern church founder in Northern Panhandle, was born

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 Paris ended French and Indian War