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Jesse and his family lived in a cabin on Hacker's Creek, near a stream that is now known as "Jesse's Run", located in present-day Lewis County, West Virginia See McWhorter's Chapter 23, "Genealogy of the Hughes Family" for more names. Hughes is believed to have been one of the first American colonists to explore the Hughes River in West Virginia.
Hackers Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River, 25.4 miles (40.9 km) long, [3] in north-central West Virginia in the United States.Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 58 square miles (150 km 2) [4] on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.
Descendants of free Black pioneers who settled Lick Creek Settlement hike the Hoosier National Forest Lick Creek Trail after helping clean gravestones at the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery, which is ...
Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants Journal vol XI/2 pg 111. ^ Jacob Haymond in the Braxton Democrat Newspaper , reprinted in "The Haymond Family Newsletter", March 1998, editor Billie Jo Runyon of Colleyville, Texas
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Jane Lew is located at (39.109203, -80.407624), [6] along Hackers Creek in northern Lewis County [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.65 km 2 ), of which 0.24 square miles (0.62 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
Simon Girty, "the White Savage," etching from Thomas Boyd's 1928 book by the same title. [9]Girty lived with Guyasuta of the Mingo and Seneca for seven years. He was returned to the British in November 1764, during a prisoner exchange after the end of Pontiac's War, but upon going back to Pennsylvania he immediately returned to his former tribe, who had to convince him to leave.