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Governor William H., notice of, 626.
Cabot on the Atlantic coast, 21.
Calhoun county, formation of, 72 Original boundaries of, 720. First courts for, 721. Pioneers of, 722.
Camp Allegheny -- See Allegheny Sum- mit, 409.
Barteau-See Traveler's Repose, 408. Campbell, Alexander, notice of, 582.
Cantrell, Major John, notice of, 625.
Carlisle, John S., election of, to the United States Senate, 367.
Opposition of, to admission of new State, 382-392.
Captina Creek, engagement at, 115.
Carnifex's Ferry, battle of, 407.
Catawba creek, Indian depredations on, 88.
Ceredo, town of. 682.
Charleston, founding of, 573.
Charlestown, town of, established, 613. First trustees of, 613.
Chauckley, Rev. Thomas, letter of, 72. Chesapeake bay, map of, by Smith, 33. Churches, first, in Berkeley county, 498. Civil Government of West Virginia, 474. Claim of Maryland to part of Virginia, 234. Clark, General George Rogers, Illinois campaign of, 176.
Clarksburgh Convention, the, 342. Town of, 546. First trustees of, 546.
Clay county, formation of, 724. First court for, 724. Claypole, John, heads insurrection in Hardy county, 139.
Clendenin, Archibald, murder of, 106. Mrs., Captivity of, 107. Captain George, biographical notice of, 220.
Clendenin's Fort, erection of, 574. Cloyd Mountain, battle of, 420. Coban's creek, Indian incursion on, 509. Coleman, Malcolm, killed by Indians, 657. Colston, Raleigh T., notice of, 503.
Columbus' discovery of the New World, 20.
Congress, first members of, from west of the Alleghenies, 138
Connally, Dr. John, the agent of Dun- more, 114.
Convention, Constitutional, of 1776, 319. of 1829-30, 322.
Members of, from West Virginia counties, 323.
of 1850-51, 325.
Members of, from West Virginia counties, 325.
Convention, Richmond, of 1861, 330.
Members of, from west of the Alle- ghenies, 331.
Flight of western delegates from, 337. Copernicus, 25.
Cornstalk, murder of, 168.
Efforts of Virginia to punish murder- ers of, 172.
Extracts from Rockbridge county records, concerning, 172.
Grave of, at Point Pleasant, 620.
Cornwallis grants military commissions to West Virginians, 140. Counties, first, formed in Virginia, 481. Area and Seat of Justice of, 735.
Craïk, Dr. John, notice of, III.
Crawford, Colonel William, Sandusky campaign of, 183.
Terrible fate of, 185. Biographical notice of. 500.
Cresap, Michael, notice of, 115.
Crogan, Colonel George, descends the Ohio, 109. Biographical notice of, 109. Crow, the Misses, murder of, 668.
Curry's farm, ambuscade at, 421.
Dare, Virginia, birth of, 23. Darke, General William, at St. Clair's defeat, 190. Biographical notice of, 216.
Darkesville, first trustees of, 497. Decker, John, last white man killed by Indians in Brooke county, 581. Delegates from West Virginia counties in Virginia Convention of 1785, 216.
Dennis, Mrs. Hannah, captivity of, 618. Dinwiddie, Governor, disputes French title to the Ohio Valley, 74.
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District of West Augusta, boundary of, 482. Doddridge county, formation of, 685. Philip, notice of, 685. Donnaliy's Fort attacked by Indians, 523. Droop Mountain, battle of, 421. Dry Creek, battle of, 418.
Dunmore, Biographical Sketch of, 131. Dunmore's War, 113. Army, march of, to the West, 122.
Elizabeth, town of, 698. English, the, claim of, to the Ohio Valley, 75. Eulin's leap, 620. Evans' Foi, 497. Indian attack upon, 497.
Fairfax, Lord, title of, to lands, 61. Manors of, 62. Heirs of, 62. Stone, the, planting of, 243. Fairmont Male and Female Academy, 676. Town of, established, 675. First trustees of, 676. Fairview, town of, 707. Fallen Timbers, battle of, 191.
Falling Waters, battle of, 404.
Faulkner, Chas. J., biographical notice of, 501. Report of, on Virginia-Maryland boundary, 234. Fayette county, formation of, 662.
First West Virginia Regiment, organi- zation of, 339. Flesher, Henry, attacked by Indians, 637.
Foote, D.D., William Henry, bio- graphical notice of, 492. Forbes, General, expedition of, against Fort Du Quesne, 94. Foreman, Caj tam, defeat of, 667. Fort Du Quesne, erection of, by the French, 84. Evacuation of, by the French, 94.
Frederick, erection of, 489.
Henry, erection of, HIS. Siege of, 152. Heroic defence of, 158. Laurens, erection of, 175. Necessity, erection of, 84. Surrender of, to the French, 84. Pitt, erection of, 94.
Fort Pleasant, location of, 558. Randolph, erection of, 619. Siege of, 173. Stanwix, treaty of, 97.
France, lost sovereignty of, on the Ohio, 94.
Franklin, town of, established, 569. First trustees of, 569.
French pioneers in Canada, 74. Exploration of, in the Ohio Valley, 80. Title of, to the Ohio Valley, 75.
The, deposit leaden plates along the Ohio, 81.
Expedition, description of, So.
Inscription on plate buried at the mouth of the Great Kanawha, 82.
French and Indian War, the, 83. Furman's Fort, 490.
Gass, Patrick, notice of, 583. Gerrardstown-See Middletown, 489. Gibson, General John, notice of, 133. Gilmer county, formation of, 686. Thomas W., notice of, 686.
Gist, Christopher, journey of, to the Ohio, 77.
Glenville, town of, incorporated, 686.
Golden Horseshoe, The, Knights of, 54. Gooch, Governor William, 69.
Grafton, town of, in orporated, 684.
Grantsville, town of, 724.
Green, John, terrible fate of, 690.
Greenbrier county, formation of, 520. Original boundaries of, 520.
First court held for, 521.
Pioneer settlers of, 521.
Last Indian incursion into, 528. First Baptist Church in, 530.
Greenbrier Land Company, So.
Valley, destruction of settlements in, 537. River, 68. Greenville, treaty of, 191. Grice Family, murder of, 517. Grundy, Felix, notice of. 044. Guyandotte, town of, established, 630. First trustees of, 631. Burning of, 409.
Hacker's creek, Indian incursion on, 544. Hall, John, biographical notice of, 623. John T., notice of, 024. James R., notice of, 624.
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Hamlin, town of, 732. Hammond, George N., notice of, 504. Hampshire county, formation of, 486. Hanbury, John, biographical notice of, 78. IIancock county, formation of, 701. First courts for, 701. Pioneer settlers of, 702. Hardy county, formation of, 555. Samuel, biographical notice of, 555. Harmar, General Josiah, campaign of, 187.
Harper's Ferry, incorporation of, 615. Location of, 307.
Surrender of Federal Army at, by General Miles, 412.
Harriman, last white man killed by Indians in Kanawha county, 575.
Harrison, Alexander, death of, 692. County, formation of, 543. First Union meeting in, 329. Indian incursions into, 543.
Harrisville, town of, established, 684. - Hawks Nest, the, 662.
Heckewelder, 18I.
Henry, town of, 725. Hereford, Sydenham, notice of, 696.
High Log Run, battle of, 408.
Hite, Joist, guides settlers into the Shen- andoah Valley, 59. Hoge, James H., biographical notice of, 696.
Hogg, Captain Peter, biographical no- tice of, 93. Hubbard, Chester D., action of, at Wheeling, 338.
Hughes, Jesse, notice of, 548.
Huntersville, town of, established, 649. Huntington, incorporation of, 631. Hurricane Bridge, engagement at, 416. Hutchins, Thomas, runs western line of Pennsylvania, 208 Makes first survey in Northwest Ter- ritory, 208.
Introduction, 19. Invincible Armada, the, 24.
Jackson county, formation of, 657. First court for, 657. Pioneers of, 658. General Thomas J. (Stonewall), 551. Jackson's river, settlers on, murdered by Indians, 88.
James river, name of, 26. .
Historic events on the banks of, 51. Jamestown, founding of, 26. Almost abandoned, 39. Jefferson county, formation of, 613. Original boundaries of, 613.
Jenkins, General A. G., death of, 420. Johnson, Governor Joseph, biographical sketch of, 549. Jolly Family, the murder of, 519. Jurisdiction of Virginia over the Ohio river, 256. Report of George W. Thompson con- cerning, 257.
Kanawha county, formation of, 570. First settlement in, 570. New State of, 369. Keiter, Captain William, notice of, 491. Kelly, Walter, killed by Indians, 571. Kennedy's Hill, surprise at, 407. Kingwood, town of, established, 643. First trustees of, 643.
Land suit, longest protracted, in the history of Virginia, 62. Leaden plates buried by the French along the Ohio, 80. Plate buried at Wheeling creek, 81. Buried at mouth of Great Kanawha, 81. Lee, General Charles, last will of, 615. Legislatures of West Virginia under the first constitution, from 1863 to 1872, 424.
Of West Virginia under the second constitution, from 1872 to 1889, 454.
Letcher, John, proclamation of, 330. Lewis county, formation of, 636. John, biographical notice of, 64. First settler in Augusta county, 67. Builds Fort Lewis, 67.
General Andrew, at Braddock's de- feat, 129. Commandant Big Sandy Expedition, SS.
Biographical notice of, 129. Colonel Charles, death of, 123.
Lewisburg, legal establishment of, 529. First trustees of, 529. Presbyterian church of, 529. Masonic Lodge of, 532. Battle of, 411.
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Lightburn's, Colonel, retreat from the Kanawha valley, 413. Lightner, Peter, notice of, 652.
Link's block house attacked by In- dians, 517.
Little Levels Academy, incorporation of, 653.
Logan county, formation of, 656. Original boundaries of, 656. Commissioners to locate county seat of, 656. London Company, the, 26.
First voyage under the auspices of, 26. Dissolution of, 48. Loyal Land Company, the, 80.
Mannington, town of, incorporation of, 676. Marietta, settlement of, 210.
Marion county, formation of, 675.
Marlin, Jacob, pioneer settler of Poca- hontas county, 649. Marshall College, 631. County, formation of, 664. First court for, 664. Pioneers of, 665. Martin, John, explorations of, 63,
Martin's Fort, Indian attack upon, 510.
Martinsburg, legal establishment of, 495.
Mason county, formation of, 616. First court for, 616.
First land surveys in, 618. Last Indian incursion into, 622. George, notice of, 616. Mason and Dixon's Line, 198. Western extension of, 199.
Massacre of Virginia colonists, 1622, 46.
Maryland, charter of, 185.
McCulloch's, Major Samuel, leap, 164. McDonald, Colonel Angus, builds Fort Fincastle, at Wheeling, 118. Western expedition of, 118. Biographical notice of, 119. Craig W., biographical notice of, 492. McDowell county, formation of, 728. Governor James, notice of, 728. McIntosh, General Lachlin, expedition of, 175. Biographical notice of, 175. McNeel, Colonel John, notice of, 650. McNutt, Lieutenant John, notice of, 92.
Mecklenburg-See Shepherdstown,614. Mercer county, formation cf, 675. Original boundaries of, 675.
George, proposed Governor of Van- dalia, 78. Middletown, first trustees of, 676.
Middlebourne, town of, established, 633. First trustees of, 633.
Mills, Thomas, escape of, from In- dians, 518.
Mineral county, formation of, 730.
Mississippi Company, the, 103.
Monongalia county, formation of, 506, First Union meeting in, 330.
Monroe county, formation of, 594. First court for, 594.
First officers of, 595.
First land surveys in, 597. First school taught in, 597.
Moorefield, legal establishment of, 559. First trustees of, 559.
Moravian Indians, massacre of, ISI. Morgan county, formation of, 644. General Daniel, suppresses insurrec- tion in West Virginia, 141.
Notice of, 144.
Morgan's, David, encounter with In- dians, 501. Morris, Leonard, first settler in Ka- nawha county, 572.
Deposition of, 572. Bishop Thomas A., notice of, 627.
Moundsville, town of, established, 670. First trustees of, 671. Mammoth mound at, 671.
Mullady Brothers, the, Thomas and Samuel, 491.
Nations, the Six, 95. Deed of cession from, 97. Neally's Fort, Indian attack upon, 498. New Cumberland, town of, 708. New Martinsville, incorporation of, 657. Newport, Captain Christopher, a mem- ber of the Virginia Council, 27. His return to Virginia, 32. New Salem, first trustees of, 547. New State of West Virginia, 393. Constitutional Convention of, 450. Roll of members, 451.
The name of, 378. Admission of, into the Union, 392. Organization of Government of, 393. Present boundary of, 399.
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Nicholas county, formation of, 641. Commissioners to locate county seat of, 641. Nicholas Wilson Cary, notice of, 641. Northern Neck, the, granted to Lord Fairfax, 61. Panhandle, origin of, 200. Northwest Territory, 201. Virginia's cession of, 202. Deed of cession of, 202.
Oceana, town of, 713. Ohio county, formation of, 514. First court for, 514. Land Company, the, 77.
Organization of, 77 Made a part of Canada, 139.
River, Colonel George Crogan's de- scent of, 109.
Washington's journey to, in 1770, IIO. Virginia's jurisdiction over, 256.
Paulee, Mrs. Margaret H., captivity of, 600.
Parr's, Nathaniel, encounter with In- dians, 666. Park, William K., notice of, 660.
Pedro, Leonard, capture of, by Indians, 722. Penitentiary, the State, 672. Pennsylvania, charter of. 196.
Peyton, John Rowzee, 662. William M., 6SS. Peytona, town of, 688. Philippi, town of, 683. First trustees of, 683.
Piedmont, town of, 730. Region, the, 50.
Pierpont, Francis H , notice of, 676.
Pioneers, West Virginia, character of, 223. Pittsburgh, Virginia Convention at, 137. Pleasants county, formation of, 719. Governor James, notice of, 719.
Pocahontas rescues Captain John Smith, 31. Marriage of, 41.
Pocahontas, Visit of, to England, 41. Death of, 42. County, formation of, 646. First court for, 647. Pioneers of, 649. Preservations of records of, 654. Poe brothers, the, 703.
Pointer Dick, notice of, 527. Point Pleasant, proposed capital of Van- dalia, 79. Battle of, 122.
Last survivor of, 135.
Confederate attack upon, 417. Legal establishment of, 617. First trustees of, 617.
Pontiac's conspiracy, 105.
Pore's Hill, skirmish at, 407.
Post, Rev. Charles Henry, Indian mis- sionary 181. Preston, Captain William, notice of, 93. County, formation of, 642.
First justices of, 642.
First courts for, 642. First Union meeting in, 329.
Pruntytown, establishment of, 684. First trustees of, 684.
Purdy family, destruction of, 519.
Putnam county, formation of, 689. First courts for, 689.
Pioneer settlers of, 689.
Quakers, first organization of, in West Virginia, 72.
Settlement of, on Opequon river, 71. Quebec Act, the, 139.
Raccoon creek, skirmish at, 422.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, notice, of, 24. Attempts of, to found colony, 22.
Tragic death of, 24.
County, formation of, 708.
First court for, 708.
First officers of, 708. Pioneer settlers of, 708.
Randolph county, formation of, 560. Original boundaries of, 560.
Indian incursions into, 562. Edmund, notice of, 560.
Ravenswood, town of, 659 ..
Raymond City, town of, 695.
Renick, Major William, notice of, 535.
Restored Government, organization of, 365. Meeting of General Assembly under, 366. Government, U. S. Senators and Members of Congress under, 367. Revolutionary War, West Virginia during the, 136. Soldiers from West Virginia in the,. 147. Rich Mountain, engagement at, 408.
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Ripley, town of, 660. Ritchie county, formation of, 683. Thomas, notice of, 683. Roane county, formation of, 725. First court for, 726. Judge Spencer, notice of, 725. Roanoke Island, attempted settlement thereon, 23. River, destruction of settlements on, 88. Romney, legal establishment of, 487. Fort near, 489.
Ronceverte, laying out of, 533. Incorporation of, 533. Roosevelt, Nicholas, survey of Ohio river by, 229. Rowlesburg, town of, established, 643.
Salling, John, in upper portion of Shen- andoah Valley, 63. A prisoner among the Indians, 63. Return of, to Williamsburg, 64. Sappington, John, deposition of, 115. Scammon, General, and staff, capture of, 415. Scarey creek, battle of, 406. Scotch-Irish, the, character of, 70.
Scott, Anne and Phoebe, murder of, by Indians, 511. Sermon, first, preached in Ohio, 181. Sewell Stephen. pioneer of Poca- hontas, 649. Seybert's Fort, massacre at, 565. Shenandoah Valley, first white man in, 59. First land grant in, 59. First settlers in, 59. Increase of population in, 60. Exploration in upper part of, 63. First settlement in upper part of, 69. Shepherdstown, legal establishment of, 614. Effort to secure National Capital at, 614. Shinnston, 547. Sistersville, town of, 634. Slavery, African, introduced into Vir- ginia, 45. Smithfield town of, established, 615. Smithsville, 684. Smith, Captain John, biographical notice of, 2S. Service of, in Virginia, 30. Leaves Virginia, 38.
Soldiers from West Virginia in the War of 1812, 224. Mexican War, 225.
Spanish, Mexico and Peru conquered by, 21. Spencer, town of, 726. Surrender at, 41I.
Spottswood, Colonel Alexander, bio- graphical sketch of, 53.
Journey of, over Blue Ridge, 53. Return of, to Williamsburg, 54.
Springfield, legal establishment of, 4SS.
State Officers, list of, 472.
Capital, the, 469. Statler's fort, Indian ambuscade near, 510.
Steamer, first, on Ohio, 231.
First on Great Kanawha, 233.
First to reach Morgantown, 233.
First on Little Kanawha, 233.
" B. C. Levi" burned by Confeder- ates, 415.
" Victress " fired upon by Confeder- ates, 416.
St. Albans, town of, 575.
St. Clair, General Arthur, defeat of, ISS.
St. Clair's defeat, soldiers from Berke- ley county at, 190.
St. Mary's, town of, 719.
Stone, West Virginia, in Washington Monument, 734. Strother, General David, biographical notice of, 503.
Stroud Family, murder of, 114.
Stuart, Colonel John, biographical sketch of, 219. Memorandum by, 536.
Sugar Tree creek, skirmish at, 419. Summers county, formation of, 733. First court for, 734. First officers of, 734.
Summersville, town of, 641. First trustees of, 641.
Supreme Court of Appeals, 470. Sutton, town of, established, 674. First trustees of, 674.
Tackett's fort, destruction of, by In- dians, 575. Pine, 692.
Taylor county, formation of, 684. First Union meeting in, 330. Thompson, George W., report of, 257. Tory Insurrection within the limits of West Virginia, 139.
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Trans- Atlantic exploration and discov- eries, 21. Traveler's Repose, engagement at, 40S. Trent, Captain William, sent to build fort at forks of Ohio, 83. Trough, the, battle of, 556. Trout's Hill, town of, 6SI.
Tucker county, formation of, 727. Pioneer settlers of, 728.
Tuckwiler's Hill, engagement at, 418.
Tush Family, the, attacked by In- dians, 669.
Tyler, the Misses, capture of, 622. County, formation of, 633. Original boundaries of, 633. Pioneer settler of, 634.
Union, town of, established, 596. Incorporation of, 597.
United States Senators, list of, 473. University, the State, 51I.
Upshur county, formation of, 719. Abel P., notice of, 719.
Van Bebber, Rhoda, murder of, 621. Van Buskirk, Captain, killed by In- dians, 580. Vandalia, New Province of, 79. "Vinland " -- the Land of Vines, 20. Virginia, shores of, first seen by Cabot,21. First charter of, 194. Second charter of, 194. Retinue of officers of, 34.
Condition of, at time of Smith's de- parture, 38. Third charter of, 41.
Under Royal Government, 48.
Physical regions of, 50. Condition of, in 1715, 54. Valley region of, 58.
Military lands of, 20S.
Convention of, which ratified the Fed- eral Constitution, 215.
Waggener, Colonel Andrew, notice of, 499. War paths of Indians, 151.
Washington's advertisement of lands on the Ohio, 79. Washington, Major George, sent to the Ohio, 83. Watson town, first trustees of, 4SS. Wayne, General Anthony, Western ex- pedition of, 191.
Wayne, General Anthony, builds Fort Recovery, 192.
Defeats the Indians at Fallen Tim- bers, 192. County, formation of, 677.
First courts for, 677. Pioneer settlers of, 679.
Webster county, formation of, 729.
Wells, Charles, Sen., 634.
Wellsburg, town of, established, 581.
West, Francis, sent to the Falls of the James, 36.
West Liberty, legal establishment of, 515. West Union, town of, incorporated, 686. Weston, town of, established, 636.
First trustees of, 636. Pioneer settler of, 637.
Wetzel, John, escape of,from Indians, 513. county, formation of, 687.
Wheeling, town of, established, 515. City of, incorporated, 516.
Wheeling Convention, the first, 346. Roll of members of, 347.
Organization of, 352. Action of, 352.
Wheeling Convention, the second, 356. Roll of members of, 357.
Declaration by, 360.
passes ordinance for reorganization of State Government, 362.
Re-assembling of, 372.
White Sulphur Springs, the, 533.
Lieutenant John, killed by Indians, 564.
Wiley, Mrs. Jenny, captivity of, 713.
Willey, Waitman T., notice of, 512.
Williamsburg, first settler at, 533.
Winfield, town of, 695. Engagement at, 422. Death of Colonel Thurman at, 423. Wirt county, creation of, 697. First courts for, 697. Pioneer settlers of, 698.
Withers, Colonel Alexander, notice of, 637.
Women, first, at Jamestown, 44. Wood county, formation of, 585. First courts for, 585. First officers of, 586. James, notice of, 585. Wyoming county, formation of, 713. Origin of name of, 713.
Zane, Ebenezer, biographical notice of, 221. Elizabeth, heroic deed of, 160. Zeisberger, Rev. David, ISI.
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