Indian Wars

Washington's disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity began the French and Indian War

The French and Indian War began with Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity

Andrew Lewis was with Washington at Fort Necessity

Mary Ingles was captured and held by Shawnees

Mary Draper Ingles was carried from Virginia into captivity in Ohio

Fort Ashby was built on John Sellers' farm

Settlers were killed by Indians along Patterson Creek

Evan Watkins farm began serving as outpost and depot for Virginia Regiment

Christopher Gist served as scout for the Virginia military commanded by Washington

John Hale's great-grandmother escaped from the Shawnees

Killbuck left the settlers in South Branch Valley with the commencement of hostilities

Kyashuta replaced Half-King as the primary representative of the Six Nations

Revised versions of the Fry-Jefferson maps appeared

George Washington ordered a stockade and fort built in Mineral County

The massacre at Baughman's Fort on the Greenbrier River occurred killing a schoolmaster

The Senecas allied themselves with the French at the Battle of the Monongahela

All settlements in Summers County area were erased during the French & Indian War

Thomas Walker was at Braddock's defeat

George Washington became colonel of the Virginia Regiment

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Fort Stanwix was completed

Families returned to the area after French defeated in upper Ohio Valley

Gen John Forbes captured the Forks of the Ohio and built Fort Pitt at present Pittsburgh

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. John Forbes

Zackquill Morgan fought in Forbes's Expedition

George Washington returned to Mount Vernon for a planter's life

Three Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, operated a pincer campaign against Fort Duquesne

Proprietors of Pennsylvania and Maryland asked the Royal Astronomer to recommend surveyors to fix their common boundary, resulting in Mason-Dixon Line

Wilson Cary Nicholas was born

Settlement in Pocahontas County resumed

Batts and Fallam exploration used in French & Indian War treaty negotiations to lay claim for England to the Ohio Valley

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

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

William Crawford directed the construction of Fort Fincastle (Fort Henry)

Ferdinando Fairfax was born in Virginia

Isaac Cox transferred his land to John Decker

Hurricane Creek received its name by a group of surveyors

William Morris and others settled at Cedar Grove in Kanawha County

Simon Kenton served as a frontier scout in the Muskingum War

The county jail of Martinsburg was completed

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was born

Paint Creek was named

Pricketts Fort was built at the confluence of Pricketts Creek and the Monongahela River by Capt. Jacob Prickett

The Lewis Trail became an early route over Sewell Mountain

The Boggs family settled near Wheeling

Union was settled by James Alexander

Thomas Walker was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs

Thomas Walker was a member of the Revolutionary Conventions

The Ohio River flooded

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

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

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

Francis Asbury named the first superintendent of American Methodists

Virginia ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory to the U.S.

George Washington visited the Cheat River

People settled in Monongalia County and Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary War

Clarksburg became the county seat of the new Harrison County

George Washington exploratory trip into the Ohio Valley encouraged the James River Company

The Rehoboth Methodist Church was established in Monroe County

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots in Morgantown

George Washington visited Zackquill Morgan to discuss possible locations of roads

Yohogania County was dissolved when the Virginia-Pennsylvania border dispute was settled

George Washington and others formed the Potowmack Company

Senecas began allying themselves with the Shawnee

The Mason-Dixon line survey was completed

Governor Benjamin Harrison granted land to Washington in present Dunbar and St. Albans, and also in present Marshall County

Last time boundaries of Augusta County changed

Daniel Boone represented Kanawha County in General Assembly

Daniel Boone represented Kanawha County in the Virginia General Assembly

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

Wedding of Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison at Harewood

Jesse Bennet performed the first cesarean section in America

Harman Blennerhassett married his niece Margaret Agnew

Battle of Fallen Timbers which defeated Ohio Valley Indians led to disuse of forts

Congress authorized the building of two armories for the manufacture of small arms

President George Washington received congressional approval to establish armories and arsenals throughout the nation

The Peter Tarr Furnace was established in present Hancock County, the first iron furnace west of the mountains

Blaker's Mill water-powered gristmill was constructed in Alderson

Kyashuta died in southwestern Pennsylvania

The Whiskey Rebellion occurred

The General Assembly of Virginia chartered the town of Point Pleasant

Joseph Ruffner purchased land from John Dickinson at Charleston

Dr. Joseph Spencer permanently settled Vienna

The Whiskey Rebellion ended