Daniel Boone

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

Robert Dinwiddie became governor of colonial Virginia

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. Edward Braddock

Andrew Lewis accompanied Braddock's expedition to Fort Duquesne

Zackquill Morgan fought in Braddock's Expedition

George Washington helped save British Forces from complete destruction at the defeat of General Braddock

Matthew Arbuckle became lieutenant of the Augusta County militia

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

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Virginia's original constitution went into effect, favoring east over west

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry

Artist John Drinker was active in Pocahontas County

Gen. William Darke voted for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution during the Virginia ratifying convention

Dr. Henry Harvey was born in Fincastle, Virginia

Pendleton County was formed.

Franklin originated as county seat of Pendleton County

David E. Jackson was born

The first Mennonites in West Virginia settled near Lewisburg

George Lemon was born

John Stuart was a member of the Virginia convention that advocated ratification of the U.S. Constitution

Reader, Wetzel County, was settled

Ebenezer Zane represented Ohio County in the Virginia convention to ratify U.S. Constitution

Last time boundaries of Augusta County changed

Daniel Boone represented Kanawha County in the Virginia General Assembly

General Arthur St. Clair led a disastrous foray into the Ohio country

The Old State Road was improved to the head of navigable water on the Kanawha River

Indian Raids in Monongalia County finally ended

Henry Morris moved to Nicholas County and built a cabin

The Shawnees defeated armies sent against their villages

Mad Anthony Wayne represented Georgia in the House of Representatives

Charles Prather petitioned Ohio County to incorporate Charlestown, now Wellsburg

The Whiskey Rebellion began

Kentucky County became the state of Kentucky

Harman Blennerhassett inherited the family estate

Joseph Doddridge became first minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Trans-Allegheny Virginia

Congress authorized the building of two national arsenals for the storage of arms

Benjamin Lewis settled in what became Mason County

Logan County was first settled

Bishop Asbury held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

Two of the Morris daughters were killed by the renegade Simon Girty

The Ohio Company went into demise

The Salem Seventh Day Baptist Church was founded in West Virginia

Sutton was settled by Adam O'Brien

The first hotel at Sweet Springs was built by William Lewis

White hunters began to settle in Tyler County

The first gristmill was built on Big Sandy Creek

Mad Anthony Wayne left the House of Representatives when his seat was declared vacant due to irregularities

U.S. raised small army with Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne in command

Harman Blennerhassett sold his property

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

William Strange was lost in the forests near Holly River

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

William Beauchamp Sr was the earliest settlers in the Wirt County area

Meshach Browning married Mary McMullen

Charles Washington died and was buried at Happy Retreat

The U.S. Armory and Arsenal was established at Harpers Ferry

The McComas family were the first whites to settle in Lincoln County

John Marshall was elected to Congress

The Little Kanawha Circuit of Methodists was formed

The first recorded school was established in Moundsville

The Berkeley Intelligencer was founded in Martinsburg

Vienna failed in trying to become county seat of Wood County

Wood County was formed and Newport was made the county seat

William Richmond acquired a ten-acre tract on the New River at Sandstone Falls

John Stuart wrote Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences

Bryan Fairfax died in Jefferson County