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Christopher Gist Quotes
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Type:
Explorer Quotes
Category:
American Explorer Quotes
Year of Birth:
1706
Year of Death:
1759
Nationality:
American
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Christopher Gist

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The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.
Christopher Gist

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
Christopher Gist


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