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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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Robert Files and David Tygart were among the first White settlers of this county.
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present West Virginia?
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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Which one of the following frontier forts was NOT located in Greenbrier County?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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