Nathaniel Gist 
Nathaniel was born on October 15th, 1733 in Baltimore Co., MD. Nathaniel's father was Christopher Gist and his mother was Sarah Howard. His paternal grandparents were Richard Gist and Zipporah Murray; his maternal grandparents were Joshua Howard and Joanna O'Carroll. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Richard, Thomas, Violetta and Anne "Nancy". He was the third oldest of the five children. He died about 1796 in Canewood Estate, Clark Co., KY.General Notes
REFN: 2801
"Myths of the Cherokee", James Mooney, Dover Publications Inc, NY, p 108:
.... by a KY family it is claimed .... Sequoyah father was Nathaniel
Gist, son of the scout who accompanied (George) Washington on his
memorable excursion to the Ohio. As the story goes, Nathaniel Gist was
captured by the Cherokee at Braddock's defeat (1755) and remained a
prisoner with them for six years, during which time he became the father
of Sequoyah. On his return to civilization, he married a white woman in
VA, by whom he had other children, and afterward removed to KY, where
Sequoyah, then a Baptist preacher, frequently visited them and was always
recognized by the family as his son.
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"Old Frontiers" by John P. Brown, 1938, Southern Publishers, Kingsport,
TN, pg 158:
Nathaniel Gist first appeared among the Cherokees as a messenger of
Governor Dinwiddie in 1755. Following the French and Indian War he
formed a trading partnership with Richard Pearis and lived in the
Cherokee country for several years. During that time, he took as his
Indian wife, Wurteh, sister of Chief Old Tassel, and became the father of
Sequoyah.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b. in England d.>Feb 1691 in Baltimore Co., MD
- b.1684 in Baltimore Co., MD d.28 Aug 1741 in Baltimore Co., MD
- b.~ 1660 in England d.>23 May 1694 in Baltimore Co., MD
- b.1705 in Baltimore Co., MD d.25 Jul 1759 in Winchester, VA
- b.~ 1685 in Baltimore Co., MD d.>Aug 1759 in Baltimore Co., MD
- b.15 Oct 1733 in Baltimore Co., MD d.~ 1796 in Canewood Estate, Clark Co., KY
- b.09 Jan 1659 in Manchester, England (Walton on Hill) d.03 Jul 1738 in Baltimore Co., MD
- b.1711 in Baltimore Co., MD d.1757 in North Carolina
- b.~ 1675 in Tipperary Co., Ireland d.12 Aug 1763 in Baltimore Co., MD
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Details of Nathaniel's family with Wurteh Watts
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