traveled into Tennessee, where he met with various native groups to seek their help during the war. His whereabouts, during the final years of the war, were uncertain. Death It is said that, during the summer of 1759, Gist contracted smallpox and died in South Carolina or Georgia. Gist's pay for military service with the First Virginia Regiment was paid to his heir, Nathaniel Gist, by 1766. Other reports have him surviving until 1794 and dying in Cumberland, North Carolina (although this narrative may confuse Christopher son of Richard Gist with a nephew also named Christopher Gist, one of Richard's grandsons through Nathaniel Gist and Mary Howard. See also Fort Seybert References 1706 births 1759 deaths Colonial American Indian agents Deaths from smallpox People of Maryland in the French and Indian War People of colonial Maryland People of colonial North Carolina People from Baltimore