Meshach Browning

John Alderson Jr. began Baptist work in southern West Virginia

Captain Bull was killed by white fighters

Fort Schuyler was destroyed by flood and fire

Johann Dahle settled in Pendleton County

Virginia confiscated Lord Fairfax's lands after his death

An Indian raid occurred in Pendleton County.

Settlers were established in the area of Point Pleasant.

Hampshire County Loyalists led by John Claypool began to resist imposition of taxes and a military draft by the Virginia Assembly

Samuel Washington died

Mad Anthony Wayne served under Nathaniel Greene in Georgia

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

Daniel Boone and his family moved to Missouri

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

The African Methodist Episcopal Church aided slaves in Western Virginia after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Gordon Battelle moved to a church in Wheeling

Charles James Faulkner Sr. was appointed minister to France by President Buchanan

Alexander Boteler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig

Boyds moved to 500 block of South Queen Street, Martinsburg

First oil-producing well drilled in Pennsylvania

Construction of stone-filled timber crib dams and timber-crib locks were completed on the Coal River

Claude Crozet became principal of Richmond Academy

Henry Koontz bought a 600-acre farm in Easton, near Morgantown

Weston College was sold at public auction

Granville Davisson Hall moved to Wheeling

Morris Harvey began his service as Fayette County sheriff

George Imboden married Mary Franes Tyree

Martin Robison Delany and 34 others met with John Brown in Canada to develop a provisional constitution for the liberated slaves

Mother Jones began teaching in a convent school in Michigan

George Latham was admitted to the bar

Construction of Weston Hospital began

A library company in Wheeling was chartered by Virginia

Linsly Institute built a new three-story building

Martin Delany wrote Blake: or, The Huts of America

Daniel Lucas was admitted to the practice of law

Michael J. Owens was born

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike was completed

The Greenbrier Historical Society begun

Frederick Lemon sold the Ritchie Mines

Nathan Scott travelled to Leavenworth Kansas

Traveller took top prizes in the Lewisburg fair

Only 94 of 162 state chartered turnpike companies operated within West Virginia

The U.S. Customs House was built

A new U.S. Custom House was completed at Wheeling

Waitman Willey was defeated as a candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia

The three-story front section of Henderson Hall was completed