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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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At the end of the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT attacked during Pontiac's Rebellion?
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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which one of the following was NOT an early land company in present-day West Virginia?
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Who accompanied George Washington on his disastrous mission to warn the French at the beginning of the French & Indian War and later served as a guide for Gen. Braddock in his disastrous campaign early in the war?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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