Notes on Richard Gist
SOURCES: My sources were The Cromwell Family I Maryland Genealogies by Francis B. Culver. Baltimore Co. Families 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes done in 1989 in Baltimore and published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. Colonial Families of the
United States pages 235-236 Vol. VI by George Norbury MacKenzie and published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. in Baltimore 1966. The Cromwells of Maryland, Kentucky, and Clay Co. Indiana 1667-1900 by Jean Cromwell Price of Clay CO. Indiana
done in 1986-89. IGI, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
!NOTE: Captain Richard Gist, of Balt. Co., Maryland, was born in 1684, and died 28 AUG, 1741; he was a surveyor of the Western Shore of Maryland; one of the seven commissioners in 1729 for laying out Baltimore Town and was commissioned in 1727 one
of the justices of Balt. Co., which position he occupied continously until his death, being Presiding Magistrate in 1736; he represented his county in the Provincial Assembly, 1740-1741; in 1737 and also in 1741 he was styled "Captain" and held a
commission as Captain in the County Militia; he owned extensive tracts of land in Balt. Co., of which he made conveyance at different times to his sons; married 7 DEC 1704, Zipporah Murray, daugther of James Murray, of Balt. Co. and Jemima Morgan,
his wife, dau. of Capt. Thomas Morgan. She survived her husband and was living 25 APRIL, 1760. (MacKenzie 236).
!SOURCES: My sources were The Cromwell Family I Maryland Genealogies by Francis B. Culver. Baltimore Co. Families 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes done in 1989 in Baltimore and published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. Colonial Families of the
United States pages 235-236 Vol. VI by George Norbury MacKenzie and published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. in Baltimore 1966. The Cromwells of Maryland, Kentucky, and Clay Co. Indiana 1667-1900 by Jean Cromwell Price of Clay CO. Indiana
done in 1986-89. IGI, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
!NOTE: Captain Richard Gist, of Balt. Co., Maryland, was born in 1684, and died 28 AUG, 1741; he was a surveyor of the Western Shore of Maryland; one of the seven commissioners in 1729 for laying out Baltimore Town and was commissioned in 1727 one
of the justices of Balt. Co., which position he occupied continously until his death, being Presiding Magistrate in 1736; he represented his county in the Provincial Assembly, 1740-1741; in 1737 and also in 1741 he was styled "Captain" and held a
commission as Captain in the County Militia; he owned extensive tracts of land in Balt. Co., of which he made conveyance at different times to his sons; married 7 DEC 1704, Zipporah Murray, daugther of James Murray, of Balt. Co. and Jemima Morgan,
his wife, dau. of Capt. Thomas Morgan. She survived her husband and was living 25 APRIL, 1760. (MacKenzie 236).
!SOURCE: BALTIMORE COUNTY FAMILIES 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland in 1989 on pages 257-8. Richard Gist, son of Christopher and Edith, was born 1684, and d. 28 DEC 1740; m.
Zipporah, dau. of James and Jemima Morgan Murray on 7 DEC 1704; in APRIL 1706 surv. 200 a. Turkey Cock Hall; in AUG 1722 conv. part of Green Spring Traverse to Christopher Choate; was one of the Commissioners appointed in 1729 to survey Baltimore
Town; admin. the est. of Francis Street on 3 MARCH 1719 and 17 SEPT 1720, and the est. of David Hagen on 25 AUG 1725; d. by 15 OCT 1741 when admin. bond on his est. was posted by Christopher Gist with Thomas Sligh and William Rogers: est. admin.
by son Christopher Gist on 23 OCT 1744 and (page 257) 13 JULY 1749; had iss.: Christopher, d. 1759; Nathaniel, b.c. 1707; William b.c. 1711; Thomas, b.c. 1713; Edith; Jemima m. William Seabrooke (page 258).
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