Strange Creek Legend

Harman Blennerhassett sold his property

Daniel Boone moved back to Kentucky

House now containing Brooke County's historical museum was built in Wellsburg

Buckongahelas signed the Treaty of Greenville

George Clendenin moved to Ohio

Bryan Fairfax became founding trustee of Charles Town Academy

Wilson Nicholas and Jacob Kenney sold their land to Robert Morris

Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett purchased Backus Island, now Blennerhassett Island

Thankful friends of Dick Pointer petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom but were refused

Joseph Ruffner first visited his newly acquired land

Joseph Tomlinson laid out a town called Elizabethtown

The massacre of the Bozarth family was the last Indian foray in Upshur County

The General Assembly incorporated the Spencer farm as a town

Lewis Wetzel moved to Louisiana Territory

There were four associations of Baptist churches in West Virginia

Alfred Beckley gained a clear title to 56,679 acres in Raleigh County

William Jenkins built the Green Bottom mansion

The Greenbrier County courthouse was built in Lewisburg

William Barton Roger conducted a geological survey of Virginia

The James River Company reorganized as a stock company

The McCoy mill was acquired by the nephew of Gen. William McCoy, William McCoy

John Myers is believed to have died

Francis Pierpont entered Allegheny College

There were 15 sawmills in West Virginia

Johann Ludwig established the J. L. Stifel & Sons textile manufacturing

The village of Suttonville (present Sutton) was laid out

The Bower cabin was built

The Universalist Meeting House in Marshall County was built

D.C. Topping established the Virginia Mission in Cabell County of the United Brethren

Peter Van Winkle moved to Parkersburg

Richard Whelan left Mount St. Mary's

Laura Jackson was sent to live with her uncle near Parkersburg