I found this information in THE JOURNALS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS GUIDE, CHRISTOPHER GIST, ON THE HISTORIC MISSION TO THE FRENCH FORTS IN 1753, ed. and comp. by Don Marshall Larrabee, 1950, pgs. 23-24: Christopher Gist (d. 1691, Baltimore County) m. Edith Cromwell. They had: Richard Gist, "surveyor of the Western Shore" m. Zipporah Murray. They had: Two sons and (Capt.) Christopher Gist (d. summer 1759 of smallpox in SC or GA, guide to George Washington, m. Sarah Howard. Christopher and Sarah had: --A son (Col.) Nathaniel Gist ("the only son that married"). He was a colonel in the Virginia line during the Rev. War. Then he moved to Kentucky, where he died "early in the 19th century." --A son Richard, who was killed in the battle of King's Mountain. --A son Thomas, who "lived on the plantation." --A daughter Anne, who lived with Thomas until he died, then went to Kentucky to live with her brother Nathaniel. --A daughter Violette. The above Nathaniel Gist ("the only son that married") had issue of: --Henry Clay. --Thomas Cecil. --Sara "eldest" m. Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, US Senator from Kentucky. --Anne, 2nd daughter, m. Col. Nathaniel Hart (described as "a brother of Mrs. Henry Clay" ... does the editor mean her brother's wife's brother?). --a daughter m. Dr. Boswell of Lexington, Kentucky. --a daughter m. Francis P. Blair and had Montgomery Blair and Francis P. Blair. --a daughter m. Benjamin Gratz of Lexington, Kentucky. Footnotes to the listing note that Montgomery Blair became a lawyer and was counsel for the defendant in the Dred Scott case. Later he was Postmaster General on Lincoln's cabinet. His brother, Francis P. Blair, was the democratic candidate for the Vice President in 1868. Also noted is that the famous Blair house across from the White House "was the home of Francis P. Blair whose wife was Violet Gist, a granddaughter of christopher Gist. This historic old mansion, purchased by Blair in 1836, is now property of the federal government." Does anyone know the descendants (if any) of Nathaniel Hart and Anne Gist (at the bottom of the list)? Maybe some of us tie in to this line somewhere! >Tanya