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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: abt 1763 Mulberry Fields / / NC Death: 07 Oct 1780 Kings Mt / York / SC
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Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
Richard Gist was born about 1763 to Nathaniel Gist at Mulberry Fields on the Yadkin River in NC. About 1770, they moved to the Holston Valley of southwest Virginia. Nathaniel Gist was a property owner at current Coeburn in Wise County, VA then on Beaver Creek between Abingdon and Bristol (Blacks Fort and Sapling Grove). In September 1780, when the call to muster went out, Richard would have been in the precinct of Captain Robert Craig under Colonel William Campbell.
In his August 4th, 1823 letter to Gov. David Campbell, Samuel Newell named Private Richard Gist as one of Colonel Campbell’s men killed in the Battle of Kings Mountain on 07Oct1780. Lyman C. Draper cites the letter as his source for his account on page 304 of Kings Mountain and its Heroes. The typesetter apparently got off a line in the manuscript and copied Lt. Nathaniel from the Nathaniel Dryden line instead of the Private Richard Gist line. The 1909 Kings Mountain battlefield monument carried forward the error from Draper’s book instead of the accurate manuscript among his papers.
Richard Gist was a young man without property and without a wife. When the county court took care of estate settlements, widows, and orphans of Kings Mountain soldiers at the November 1780 quarterly court session, Richard Gist is unmentioned.
On September 18th 1782 Washington County court recorded that they paid £4.10.0 to Nathaniel Gist, heir at law for Richard Gist for a rifle lost at Kings Mountain.
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