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History
- The Tygart Valley was first settled by Europeans in 1753 when David Tygart (for whom the valley and river are named) and Robert Files (or Foyle) located (separately) with their families in the vicinity of present-day Beverly. Although there had been no recent history of conflicts between whites and Indians in that immediate area, that summer a party of Indians traveling the Shawnee Trail discovered the Files cabin and killed seven members of the family. One son escaped and alerted the Tygart family, allowing all to escape. No other white settlement was attempted in present Randolph County until 1772. (It has been thought that Tygart was again among those settling then, but this is not certain).[10]
- The brothers John and Samuel Pringle, who had taken up residence along the Buckhannon tributary of the Tygart (in present Upshur County) in 1761, acted as their contemporary Daniel Boone was doing in Kentucky and guided numerous immigrant settlers into the main valley of the Tygart which at that time abounded in game and fertile bottomlands. Settlers of the 1770s and '80s included the Connelly, Hadden, Jackson, Nelson, Riffle, Stalnaker, Warwick, Westfall, Whiteman and Wilson families.[11]
- Several minor actions occurred in the Valley during the American Civil War,[12] including the Battle of Philippi, the Battle of Laurel Hill and the Battle of Cheat Mountain, all in 1861.
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- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
The Tygart Valley River — also known as the Tygart River — is a principal tributary of the Monongahela River, approximately long, in east-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in the Allegheny Mountains and the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Petition for Tygarts Valley to be re-assigned to Monongalia County
- Petition
- The Petition of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley, a part of Augusta County.
- To the General Assembly of Virginia.
- 7 November 1780.
- Most Humbly Sheweth.
- That Your Petioners leys Westward of the Alighany Mountains, and from the Center of our Settlement One Hundred and Twenty One Miles to our Seat of Justice, which Distance of Road Together with Eight high Mountains and many Rivers and Creeks in the Way to cross which Obstructions often Renders the way unpassible that we have not as yet injoyed the Common Right of our fellow Citizens which we are Sencible You mean not to Deprive us of, and humbly Begs leave to acquaint this House that the Seat of Justice in the County of Monogalia would be much more convenient to us than the Seat of Justice in Augusta County neither are we willing to be laid off in any New Direction that may hereafter be made in Augusta County as we Can not expect that the Seat of Justice in a New Division Could be made Convenient to us and to the People Living in the Interior Settlements as we would have at least Five high Mountains and two Rivers with many other Rapid Streams of Water in our way to any of the Settlements on Potomack or James River Waters. Your Petitioners Humble Desire is that this present Assembly would be Graciously Pleased to add our Settlement of Tigers Vally to Monongalia County as the Distance of Road from the Center of our Settlement is but Ninety Miles to Monongalia County Court House and but one Low Mountain to Cros, and the Waters insiderable Your humble Petitioners Prays, that our Distressed Situation would be taken into your consideration and Relief Granted, and we in Duty Bound Shall ever Pray
| Name | Name | Name |
| | Benjamin Wilson | John I. Yocum | Joseph Nelson
| | Abraham Kittle | Michael ____?? | Charles Fornelson
| | Peter P Springstone | John Wilson | Joseph Nelson
| | Robert Clark | Thomas X Isener | Peter Hamilton
| | Jonathan Smith | Josph? Donoho | William Hamilton
| | John Stalhnacker | John Truby | David Haddan
| | Solomon Ryan | Nicholas N Smith | John Haddan
| | Benjamin Hornbeck | Jonathan Buffington | Charles McLean
| | Nicholas N Petro | Joseph Summerfeel | George G Shavers
| | Christopher C Treby | Mathew Lambert | William Currance
| | Valentine Stalnaker | Abraham Slots | John Alexander
| | James Westfall | Elijah Slots | John Cassity
| | Henry Petro | Joseph Friend | Peter Cassity
| | Aaron Richardson | Cornelius Westfall | Benjamin Jones
| | Jacob Kittle | George Westfall, Jr. | George M Breding
| | Nicholas Wolf | William Westfall | Thomas X Price
| | William Wilson | Daniel Westfall | Jacob Shavers
| | Thomas Fillipps | Joseph Crouch | Peter P Breding
| | Jacob X Stalnaker, Jr. | George Westfall, Sr | Peter Shavers
| | William Smith | Alexander Maxwell | Cornelius Bogart
| | James Littell | Thomas X Hoarld?? | Joseph D Doneaho
| | William Casaty | James Lecky, Jr | Moses M Kittle
| | Aaron Vanscoy | Jacob Riffle | Richard K Kittle
| | Jacob Westfall | Andrew A Crouch | John Crouch, Sr
| | | John Crouch
| | | Jacob Stallnaker, Sr
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- This is to Certify that I have Been apointed formerly by the Court of Augusta County to Take in the List of Tithables in the District of Tigers Valley and they amounted to No. 86
- Benj Wilson
- 23 October 1780
- The above Certifycat of Tithable Done by Colonel Sampson Mathews Directions to me
- Benj Wilson
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