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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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Which early settler did Thomas Jefferson mistakenly blame for the murder of Chief Logan's family?
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Harrison County congressman was President James Madison's brother-in-law and one of the first government officials to press for greater rights for Western Virginia.
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This Seneca Indian's military efforts led to the near complete abandonment of the Greenbrier and Monongahela valleys.
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Who is generally considered the founder of Charles Town?
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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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