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- === Marylanders to Carolina-Henry C. Peden, Jr.
GIST, WILLIAM. William Gist, second son Of William Gist and
Violetta Howard, and grandson of Capt. (Judge) Richard Gist and
Zipporah Murray, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland on
September 23, 1742. He migrated to South Carolina in his young
manhood, and became a planter, owning lands on Tyger River in
Union District. He married Sarah Fincher in 1773/4 and their
children were: Joseph Gist (born January 12, 1775, married Sarah
s. McDaniel in 1800, became a Congressman in 1821, and died March
8, 1836); William Gist; Nathaniel Gist (born 1776, married
Elizabeth L. McDaniel in 1811, and died in 1861); Francis Fincher
Gist; and, John Gist (cl781-1804). During the American Revolution
William Gist was a Loyalist, for which he was imprisoned in
Charleston in 1776. Later he was a Captain of a company of
Loyalists in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780 and fought
against his cousins Colonel Nathaniel Gist and Ensign Nathaniel
Gist of the Virginia Regiment. "After the war, William Gist's
property was confiscated and he moved to Charleston, where he
became a merchant. In 1785 the General Assembly of South Carolina
restored to Sarah Guest (Gist), wife of William Guest (Gist),
five hundred acres of any lands late the property of William
Guest, not sold by the commissioners of forfeited estates."
William Gist died on October 31, 1802, and is buried in St.
Michael's Churchyard in Charleston, South Carolina (Ref: Wilson
Gee's The Gist Family of South Carolina and its Maryland
Antecedents, pages 19-24 (1934), citing John Belton O'Neall's
Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina,
page 219, and "Gist Family of Baltimore County," by Christopher
Johnston, Maryland Historical Magazine, December, 1913, page 378).
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1742 - 1802 (60 years)