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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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Which early settler did Thomas Jefferson mistakenly blame for the murder of Chief Logan's family?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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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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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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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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