Capt. Richard Gist

Citations

1. [S1021] George Norbury Mackenzie, editor, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Seven Volumes (New York and Boston: The Grafton Press, 1907 et al), VI:235-242, entry for Gist.
2. [S2413] Lawrence A. Orrill, "Christopher Gist and His Sons", Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (August 1932), online https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/viewFile/1590/1438, p. 194.
3. [S2412] Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, online Ancestry.com. Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records, Call No. RG2/B/S361 3.3. Marriage Certificates of West River, Herring Creek and Indian Springs Meetings 1682-1824, p. 30, img. 33/308 (on Ancestry.com, indexed as "Ohio > Columbiana > Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting," in error). Transcriptio follows (spelling maintained as close as possible):
   
   Whereas Richard Geist of Baltimore County in ye Province of Maryland and Zipporah Morray Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records, Call No. RG2/B/S361 3.3. Marriage Certificates of West River, Herring Creek and Indian Springs Meetings 1682-1824, p. 30, img. 33/308 (on Ancestry.com, indexed as "Ohio > Columbiana > Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting," in eSandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records, Call No. RG2/B/S361 3.3. Marriage Certificates of West River, Herring Creek and Indian Springs Meetings 1682-1824, p. 30, img. 33/308 (on Ancestry.com, indexed as "Ohio > Columbiana > Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting," in error). Transcriptio follows (spelling maintained as close as possible):
   
   Whereas Richard Geist of Baltimore County in ye Province of Maryland and Zipporah Morray Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records, Call No. RG2/B/S361 3.3. Marriage Certificates of West Ri[sic] of the same county in the province aforesaid having declared their intentions of marriage ton [sic] Sundry times at severall public meetings of the people called Quakers in annarundell [sic] County wch. was approved by the said meetings—
   Now these are to certifie all people whom it may concerne that for the full determining of the intentions aforesaid this seventh day of the tenth month called December anno: 1704 in an assembly of the people aforesaid at the meeting house of the said people in Baltimore County on the south side of Potaptsco River the said Richard Geist did there in the presence of God in that assembly stand up according to the example of the holy men of God in the Scripture of truth and declare as followeth friends in the presence of God and you his people I doo take Zipporah Murray to be my wife promising to be unto [her] a loving husband till Death us separate, — and the said Zipporah Morray did then and there declare as followeth friends in the presence of God and you his [people] doo take Richaed Geist to be my husband promising to be to him a loving and faithfull wife till death us separates And we who are hear present at their taking each other have heareunto set our hands as witnesses unto the saime the day and year aforesaid
   
   
   Rich^d Geist
   Zipphor Morray (mark)
   
   
   
   
   
   T Con Child
   John Willmote
   
   
   Rich^d Snowdon Senr
   John Tidings
   John Ashman
   
   Richd Snowden Junr
   Rich Cromwell
   Sar: Bale
   
   T Cozek Linthicom
   Koia Murray
   George Thorpe
   
   Ed: Davis
   Eliza Cromwell
   Sam. J. Cooker
   
   John Gale
   Will: Cromwell
   Tho: Rockhould
   
   Tho: J Cooker
   Tho: Cromwell
   Tho Randall
   
   Jam: Steveison
   Ni: Ficksimons
   Ruth Snowden
   
   J Con J Call
   Ruth J Coallwate
   Eliza: Hayes
   
   John Martin
   Mary Cromwell
   Eliza: j Calle
   
   John T Cayse
   
   Poshe Lane
   
   Char. Gorsuch
   
   
   
   Cris: Mathan
   
   
   
   Sar. J Cookor
   
   
   
   Sar. Lane
   
   
   
   Mary Snowdon
   
   
   
   Eliza: Hayes
   
   
   
   Eliza: J.
   
   
4. [S2414] Christopher Johnston, "Gist Family of Baltimore County", Maryland Historical Magazine Vol. VIII (December 1913): p. 376.