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Which one of the following once owned most of the land in the present Eastern Panhandle?
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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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Which one of the following was NOT an early land company in present-day West Virginia?
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present 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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This Seneca Indian's military efforts led to the near complete abandonment of the Greenbrier and Monongahela valleys.
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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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This county, which once included Hancock, is considered West Virginia's "lost county" because it was later eliminated from the map?
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