24 Facts About Nathaniel Gist

Nathaniel Gist was born in Maryland and fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.

Nathaniel Gist was reputed by Wurteh Watts to be the father of Sequoyah, the famous Cherokee.

Nathaniel Gist probably participated in Light Horse Harry Lee's Paulus Hook Raid in 1779.

Nathaniel Gist is variously said to have died in 1796,1812, or at the end of the War of 1812.

Nathaniel Gist is confused with his uncle Nathaniel Gist.

In 1755 Nathaniel Gist accompanied Braddock's Expedition in 1755, serving as a lieutenant in his father's ranger company in Washington's colonial regiment.

Nathaniel Gist continued his military service in 1756, protecting the frontier against raids by pro-French Indians.

In 1757, Nathaniel Gist received promotion to captain and was given responsibility for 200 Cherokees living in Virginia.

Nathaniel Gist was credited with leading these native peoples as an auxiliary force during the successful Forbes Expedition of 1758.

In 1760, Nathaniel Gist accompanied Daniel Boone and other hunters on a trek to Abingdon, Virginia, then called Wolf Hill.

Nathaniel Gist was said to have sired Sequoyah in 1760 or 1761, but this is unlikely because the Anglo-Cherokee War was raging and Gist was serving in Adam Stephen's colonial Virginia regiment against the Cherokees.

Samuel C Williams believed that Gist fathered Sequoyah around 1775 by his mother Wurteh Watts.

Nathaniel Gist noted that Sequoyah went by George Guess, Guest, and Gist, and that he finished the Cherokee alphabet in 1821 when he was about 40.

The year 1775 found Nathaniel Gist living with the Overhill Cherokees.

Jarret Williams, a settler got back to Virginia with the news that Nathaniel Gist was working with the British.

Nathaniel Gist was in the pay of Cameron at the time.

Nathaniel Gist was enjoined to capture the Stuarts, Cameron, and Gist as enemies.

Christian thought Nathaniel Gist was remorseful for becoming involved with the British agents, but did not entirely trust him.

Nevertheless, he kept him from harm and Nathaniel Gist later regained his popularity.

Nathaniel Gist received 7,000 acres in Kentucky for his services in the war.

Nathaniel Gist moved there in 1793 and built an estate called Canewood.

Historian Francis B Heitman asserted that Gist died in 1796.

In 1783, Nathaniel Gist married Judith Cary Bell and the couple had four daughters, Eliza Violet, Sarah Howard, Anne Cary, and Maria.

The noted Maryland officer Mordecai Nathaniel Gist was his first cousin.