On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon signed Articles of Agreement with Valentine Crawford to act as the “Overlooker & manager” of the expedition of workers to establish a settlement on Washington’s lands on the Great Kanawha River at the site of present-day Charleston, West Virginia. Crawforrd would later serve as a Colonel in the Virginia Militia during the Revolution

Source: https://www.founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0008