John Stuart

Matthew Arbuckle's first post was gentleman justice of Botetourt County

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.

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

Francis Asbury is part of the Methodist movement in England

Botetourt County formed from southern half of Augusta

John Corbly settled in the Morgantown area

John Sutton formed the Simpson Creek Baptist Church in Harrison County

Adam Stephen purchased 255 acres of land in present Berkeley County and laid out Martinsburg

Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York

William Stewart came from Ireland to the Forks of Cheat in present Monongalia County

Col. George Washington and Dr. James Craik claimed land in the Ohio watershed on their canoe trip

Killbuck died at the Delaware village in present Coshocton, Ohio

While hunting, Kyashuta encounters George Washington on his canoe trip

The upper watershed of the Little Kanawha was explored by John Hacker

Chief Logan moved his family to the Ohio Valley

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

Samuel McColloch emigrated from the South Branch of the Potomac to Wheeling

A survey party led by George Washington visited the present Point Pleasant area in Mason County

George Washington surveyed the present Ravenswood area in Jackson County and later acquired 2,448 acres there

Jesse Hughes became the first European to enter Roane County

Joseph Tomlinson and brother Samuel Tomlinson settled in the Ohio Valley frontier

The Treaty of Lochaber secured for Britain any lands in the Western Virginia region not covered by the Treaty of Hard Labor

George Washington wrote the first written accounts of the forests of present West Virginia

A permanent settlement was made in the Buckhannon Valley

A log house was built by James Byrnside in Union

Samuel Washington built his house Harewood in present Jefferson County

Matthew Arbuckle was active in raising the siege of Fort Donnally

Company under Samuel Lewis left Fort Savannah to assist Fort Donnally

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

Matthew Arbuckle became first settler in Lewisburg

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

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

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

Daniel Boone and his family settled near mouth of Kanawha River

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

Reader, Wetzel County, was settled

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

John Beckley became the first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Bryan Fairfax declined the title to become Lord Fairfax

Hughes' detractors unsuccessfully attempted to have Hughes River renamed "Junius River"

The Presbyterian general Assembly adopted a policy to send missionaries to the American frontier settlements to form new congregations.

John Augustine Washington was born

The Treaty of Fort Harmar was signed

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

Daniel Boone and his family moved to Missouri

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

Dr. Sydenham Herford graduated from Jefferson Medical College

A high school was established in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Glenville

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal came to Harpers Ferry

Harrisville's first post office opened

Samuel Kercheval published A History of the Valley of Virginia in Winchester

Point Pleasant was incorporated

Buffalo was laid out and incorporated

The Red Sulphur Springs property was purchased by Dr. William Burke

The town of Solus (present Harrisville) became known by that name

Sam Vinson was born

Waitman Willey began law practice in Morgantown