Exploration, Settlement and
Conflict (1600-1799)
General
Pre-1700
1700-1750
1751-1774
1775-1800
Individuals
General
An Overview of Early Settlement in Western Virginia
Social and Industrial Life in Early Settlements
Rural Life
"Folk Medicine" by Peggy S. Fisher (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Native American Clashes With European Settlers
Religion in Western Virginia
Sketches by Joseph H. Diss Debar
Settlement Illustrations
Pre-1700
Journal of the Batts and Fallam Expedition, 1671
Batts and Fallam Expedition (Time Trail)
1700-1750
Sources on Alexander Spotswood
Description of Spotswood's Transmontane
Expedition
Journal of John Fontaine
"The Virginians of the Valley"
"Virginia Frontier Defenses, 1719-1795" by Roy Bird Cook (West Virginia History)
Morgan Morgan Organizes Militia (Time Trail)
Sources on Morgan Morgan
"The Lead Plates" (Celeron de Blainville)
Translation of Lead Plate (Celeron de Blainville)
George Washington's Notes on Survey of William
Warden Lands
Deed For Land Conveyed from Lord Fairfax to
William
Warden
"Early Land Grants and Settlers Along Patterson
Creek" by Charles Morrison (West Virginia History)
An Example of a Fairfax Land Grant
George Washington Acquires His First Land in Present-Day
West
Virginia (Time Trail)
Colonial Council of Virginia: The Loyal
Company
Journal of Thomas Walker
Journal of Christopher Gist, 1750-51, for the Ohio Company
Sources on Christopher Gist
1751-1774
French and Indian War: Primary Documents
Battle of the Trough
D. A. R. Hold Annual Picnic at Frankfort
"Fragment of the Old Frontier"
Sources on Mary Draper Ingles
"Mary Ingles' Escape Story Like 'Thriller' Fiction Tale"
"New Interpretations of Fort Seybert"
Description of the Fort Seybert Massacre, From
Chronicles of Border Warfare
"Pendleton Indian Massacre One of History's
Worst"
Incorporation of Romney and Shepherdstown (Time Trail)
Proclamation of 1763 (Time Trail)
Royal Proclamation of 1763
"Cornstalk's Raid on the Greenbrier - 1763"
"John Ewing and the Clendenin Massacre"
John Stuart's Account of the Clendenin Massacre
Journal of George Washington, from an expedition along the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers
"An Incident: A Scrap of Border History"
Massacre of Logan's Family (Time Trail)
Sources on Logan
"Logan: A Friend of the White Man"
Sources on Cornstalk
Fighting Chief Cornstalk's Remains Laid To Rest Again"
Battle of Point Pleasant (Time Trail)
"'Manufactured History': Re-Fighting the Battle of Point
Pleasant" (West Virginia History)
"Colonel William Fleming in Dunmore's War, 1774" by William D. Hoyt Jr. (West Virginia History)
Dunmore's War: Primary Documents
"Fort Morris Was Virginia Defense Post"
"Vandalia: The First West Virginia?" by James Donald Anderson (West Virginia History)
"Frontier Defense: Colonizing Contested Areas in the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia" (electronic document courtesy Kim McBride and W. Stephen McBride)
1775-1800
Revolutionary War and Its Aftermath
Revolutionary War: Primary Documents
Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor
"The Earliest Printed Version of David Morgan and the
Two
Indians" by Jack B. Moore (West Virginia History)
1777 Roster of Captain Haymond's Company, Monongalia County
Militia (Ms79-179)
Fort Randolph
Fort Donnally
"The Death of Major Samuel McColloch: Historical Record and Oral
History" by Bruce D. Bonar (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"A Captive of the Shawnees, 1779-1784" John H. Moore (West Virginia History)
Claypool's Rebellion
Claypool's Rebellion: Primary Documents
Elizabeth Zane and Fort Henry
"Battle of Captina: A Scrap of Border History"
Will of Charles Lee
James Rumsey Demonstrates His Steamboat (Time Trail)
"A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam," by James
Rumsey
Proposals of George Clendenin for the Frontier Defense of
Western Virginia
Establishment of Fort Lee at Charleston (Time Trail)
Shepherdstown Considered For Nation's Capital (Time Trail)
"First Duel in the Valley of the Kenawha"
Charleston Becomes an Official City (Time Trail)
Whiskey Rebellion
Masthead of the Potomak Guardian, 1798
"Two Hundred Years in the Telling" by Barbara Smith (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"First Settlement at Grave Creek"
Sources on the Wizard Clip
"Wizzard Clip"
John Stuart 1798 Account of Settlement Era of Greenbrier County
Individuals
Resources on Francis Asbury
"Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury Erected in
Washington"
Anne Bailey
Sources on Jesse Hughes
"West Virginia Sketch Book-Drawing of Jesse Hughes'
Cabin"
Margaret and Harman Blennerhassett
Daniel Boone
"The Cranes of Greenbrier County" by Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, and Kathy Cohenour (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Sources on Simon Girty
"Famous Traitor Simon Girty Was Here"
John George Jackson Escapes a Deadly Fire (Time Trail)
Sources on Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Sources on Tecumseh
"Famed Tecumseh Was a West Virginian"
Lewis Wetzel
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