GARST: Our Garst Family in America Revised 2004By Floyd & Kathryn Mason, William Tell Garst 1950 version This is the story of the Garst family in America, showing eleven generations of descendants. The ancestors came to America on the ships 'Patience'', 'Molly', etc in search of freedom and justice, to separate from the domination of the church at Rome, a rest from persecution, and freedom to study the Word and worship God according to the New Testament. They settled in Lancaster County,