Youen Carden (ca. 1762–1850), of Cumberland County, served as a private in the 3d Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons from 1781 to 1783, taking part in the siege of Yorktown and serving thereafter in and around Charleston, South Carolina. In November 1808 TJ hired Carden as miller of his Albemarle County toll mill. With one brief exception when Thomas Mann Randolph leased the mill, Carden retained that position until March 1824. Thereafter, he resided in Fluvanna and Greene counties. In support of his successful pension application, Thomas Jefferson Randolph remarked in 1845 that because Carden had “a singular Christian name which he could not write himself, no one knew exactly what the name was,” but TJ’s usage and the pension documents both eventually settled on Youen (John F. Dorman, Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications [1958], 15:59–61; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901 description ends , 370; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1250, 1403; Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 description ends , 515).