13. Dind here no body but Captn. Posey. I walked out with my Gun. In the Afternoon Mr. Geo. Young came here to live.
GW hired Young at £25 for one year to accompany the Kanawha expedition (General Ledger B description begins General Ledger B, 1772–1793. Library of Congress, George Washington Papers, Series 5, Financial Papers. description ends , folio 107).
“[Diary entry: 13 January 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0001-0013. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 226.]