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May 16, 1775 Tory insurrection under John Claypole, a resident of Hardy county, suppressed by troops under General Morgan......June, 1775 Captain Foreman and twenty-one men massacred by Indians about 4 miles from Moundsville......Sept. 25, 1777 Fort Henry unsuccessfully besieged by Indians under Simon Girty......Sept. 27-28, 1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief, murdered at Point Pleasant......Nov. 10, 1777 Fort Randolph besieged by Indians......May, 1778 Attack by the Indians on Donnally's Fort, 10 miles northwest of Lewisburg......May, 1778 By grant of William Penn in 1681, the western boundary of Pennsylvania is the meridian 5 degrees west of the Delaware. Virginia in ceding to the United States lands beyond the Ohio, in 1784, reserved a strip about 70 miles long upon the Ohio west of Pennsylvania, now known as the Panhandle......March 1, 1784 General Assembly directs the establishment of Morgantown......October, 1785 Wheeling laid out in town lots by Col. Eben