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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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A member of this pioneering family in present-day central West Virginia supposedly wrote the fiddle tune "Shelvin' Rock" while sheltering from Indians.
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This battle in northwestern Ohio ended violent conflicts between Indians and settlers in present-day West Virginia.
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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Of these Revolutionary War generals from the Eastern Panhandle, which one was NOT dismissed from his commission during the Revolutionary War?
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Which one of the following frontier forts was NOT located in Greenbrier County?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Charles Town?
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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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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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