The founder of the Gist family, of Maryland, was Christopher Gist, or Guest, who migrated from England and settled in Maryland on the south side of the Patapsco river in 1682, but removed in 1691 to Baltimore county. He married Edith Cromwell, of the family of the great Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England. [1]

Sources

1. Williams, Samuel C.  THE FATHER OF SEQUOYAH: NATHANIEL GIST.  Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 15, No. 1, March, 1937, page 3.