Joshua Evans (1731 - 1798)

Born 23 Sep 1731 in Evesham Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Collins) Evans — married 20 Mar 1753 in Haddonfield Monthly Meeting (MM), New Jersey

Husband of Ann (Kay) Evans — married about 1777 in New Jersey, United States

Descendants

Died 6 Jul 1798 at age 66 in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey, United States

Joshua was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

"Joshua Evans (September 23, 1731 – July 6, 1798) was an American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist. He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham Township in Burlington County, New Jersey.[1] Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on November 2, 1753. Evans, after experiencing a religious conversion about the year 1754, devoted his life to sharing his interpretation of the gospel. He practiced a simple ministry and an ascetic and pious life style, and was a vegetarian. In 1759, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting acknowledged him as a minister. Evans was an abolitionist and a passionate supporter of Quaker plainness and the Peace Testimony and war tax resistance. [2]Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died in 1798."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Evans_%28Quaker_minister%29

"Joshua Evans was born in 1731 in Evesham, New Jersey to Thomas and Rebekah Evans. By 1745, he was apprenticed to a bricklayer. In 1752, he contracted pleurisy in Philadelphia and was taken to the home of John and Elizabeth Collins. He married Priscilla Collins in 1753 and moved to Mount Holly, New Jersey, where he worked as a mason. The couple later removed to a house near John Woolman's. In 1757, they settled on the south side of Cooper's Creek in Gloucester County, New Jersey, within the limits of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. In 1756, Evans had his goods requisitioned on account of his refusal to be a soldier. He abstained from all intoxicating liquors, tea, coffee, sugar and molasses. By 1762, he adopted the use of undyed clothing and wore a beard. In 1761, he purchased a farm in Newton township. Evans married a second time in 1777 to Ann Kay (d. 1807). He died on July 7, 1798 and was buried in Haddonfield, New Jersey."

Spouse: Priscilla Collins 1733-Unknown

Joshua Evens, son of Thomas Evens of the Township of Evesham, County of Burlington, Provience of New Jersey, Bricklayer married Priscilla, daughter of John Collins of Waterford, Gloucester County, NJ on 20 day of the Third (March) Month in the year 1753 at Haddonfield Meeting, New Jersey.^[1]

Children:

Joseph Evans 1765-1849

Priscilla Evans 1773-Unknown

Rebecca Evans 1758-1759

Elizabeth Evens 1756-1821

Rachel Evans 1760-1827

John Evans 1762-Unknown

Ellin Evans 1767-1768

Margaret Evans 1769-Unknown

Joshua Evans 1771-Unknown

Owen Evans 1775-Unknown

"Joshua Evans, who married 'Priscilla Collins. was the son of Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen, his second wife. Thomas was the son of William Evans and Elizabeth, the progenitors of the Evans family, who came from Wales, England, and settled at Evesham Mount, New Jersey."

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Sources

1. ↑ Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates. Ancestry. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Image

• http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Z92QXSO773EC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=Joshua+Evans+born+1731&source=bl&ots=kZ1IBxG1lJ&sig=qWrOw-S4YxIv9qJwCxxK8SqwhvE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6NRuU6GpJtTd8AXVqICoAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Joshua%20Evans%20born%201731&f=false

• Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickitt, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton and Engle families. Camden, N.J. : Sinnockson, Chew & Sons Co., printers, 1902, 486 pgs.

• (Available online at https://ia700309.us.archive.org/18/items/ancestryofhaines00hain/ancestryofhaines00hain.pdf)

• Joshua Evans Diary and Autobiography, 1731-1798

• http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/e/Evans,Joshua.html

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=collinsgensearch&id=I14784&op=GET

• http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/dictionary/index.php/EVANS,_Joshua,_1731-1798

• http://records.ancestry.com/joshua_evans_records.ashx?pid=34567848

• http://archive.org/stream/ancestryofhaines00hain/ancestryofhaines00hain_djvu.txt

• http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue6.html#7

Acknowledgments

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