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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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This Greenbrier County fort builder served as a guide and chief scout for Andrew Lewis on the march to the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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Hugh Stephenson formed this military unit in response to George Washington's call for troops at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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This Randolph County settler was held captive by Shawnees from 1791 to 1794.
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