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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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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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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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What finally ended threats to present-day West Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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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 is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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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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