Gist Settlement

Gist Settlement (HM2IAE)

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N 38° 54.781', W 83° 53.774'

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Scott Township

Through the terms of his will,
absentee British
landowner Samuel Gist
freed his 350 slaves in Virginia.
Gist (c.1723-1815)
intended
that these freed people would
remain on
the land and
receive
instruction in Christianity and that schools would
be
established

for their
children. The settlement of Gist's estate
funded the
relocation of the free
slaves to Ohio. Gist's executors acquired over 2,200 acres of land in Ohio.
These lands
included
two
large tracts in Scott and Eagle Townships in Brown County in 1819 and another 207
acres in Fairfield Township (now Penn Township)
in Highland County
in 1831 and 1835. As of 2010 no descendants of the freed
Gist slaves lived in the original Scott Township
settlement.
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HM NumberHM2IAE
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Year Placed2010
Placed ByFreed Gist Slaves Descendants Foundation and The Ohio Historical Society
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, June 30th, 2019 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 248880 N 4311112
Decimal Degrees38.91301667, -83.89623333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 54.781', W 83° 53.774'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 54' 46.86" N, 83° 53' 46.44" W
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