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130. Nathan, b. 1772, d. 1826, m. Ann Shoemaker.
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131. Thomas b. 1774, d. same year.
132. John b. 1775, d. 1777.
133. Jonathan, b. 1778, d. 1844, m. Elizabeth Iden. ₺
134. Elizabeth, b. Ist mo. 31, 1781, m. 1802, Cadwalader Roberts, of Gwynedd. (See Roberts Genealogy.)
135. Jane, b. 12th mo. 24, 1784, d. 7th mo. 3, 1876, m, 1811, William Robinson, of Providence (b. 1777, d. 1859), son of Nicholas and Elizabeth. William and Jane removed to Ohio, in 1816 or 1817. Their children were : Elizabeth, b. 1814, d. 1847 ; Tacy, b. 1818 ; Samaria, b. 1818, m. George P. Clark.
III. (78.) PETER EVANS, of Merion, son of Robert, of Gwynedd, b .. Ist mo. 20, 1722, m. MARY THOMAS, dau. of William and Elizabeth, of Merion.1 PETER appears to have removed to Merion ; the births of his children, as here given, are from the Haverford records.
IV. Children of Peter and Mary :
136. Jonathan, b. 7th mo. 2, 1745.
137. Ezekiel, b. 5th mo. 27, 1747.
138. Hannah, b. 10th mo. 7, 1748.
139. Rachel, b. Ist mo. 21, 1751.
140. Levi, b. 7th mo. 18, 1753.
141. Priscilla, b. 9th mo. 30, 1755.
142. Zachariah, b. 3d mo. 8, 1758.
143. Margaret, b. 3d mo. 2, 1760.
144. Mary, b. 12th mo. 17, 1761.
III. (89.) NATHAN EVANS, of Gwynedd, son of Evan and Phebe, b. IIth mo. 17, 1720, d. 1758 or '59, m. "at the house of Benjamin Morgan," 1746, RUTH MORGAN, dau. of Daniel. In 1758, he obtained a certificate for his removal to Wil- mington, Del., and the records of the monthly meeting there
1 There is some confusion of dates, (possibly of identity), concerning PETER. According to the Historical Society's abstract of Haverford records, his marriage occurred in 1774. (See p. 112 this volume.) But the dates of his children's births indicate 1744 as the correct date.
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show the presentation of it, 6th mo. 8, in that year, for him- self, wife, and the four children named below. But in 1759 (10th mo. 11), his widow requested a certificate for her return to Gwynedd. She subsequently married Moses Peters, and they removed to Oxford, Philadelphia, where Moses died 1784. In his will he names his step-sons, Daniel, Lemuel, and Elijah Evans.
IV. Children of Nathan and Ruth :
145. Daniel. 146. Lemuel.
147. Elijah. 148. Samuel.
III. (92.) Dr. CADWALADER EVANS, of Philadelphia, son of John and Eleanor, b. at Gwynedd, 1716, d. 6th mo. 30, 1773, m. Ist mo. 22, 1760, JANE OWEN, dau. of Owen Owen, of Philadelphia, dec'd. CADWALADER was bu. at Gwynedd ; he left no children. A more particular sketch of him will be elsewhere given.
III. (93.) ROWLAND EVANS, of Gwynedd, son of John and Elea- nor, b. 1718, d. 8th mo. 8, 1789, in Philadelphia. He m. at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 15, 1748, SUSANNA FOULKE (b. Ist mo. 17, 1720, d. 3d mo. 1, 1787), dau. of Thomas and Gwen. (See Foulke Genealogy.) A sketch of him will be separately given.
IV. Children of Rowland and Susanna :
149. Cadwalader, b. Dec. 7, 1749, merchant in Philadelphia, d. Feb. 21, 1821, unmarried.
150. John, d. Ioth mo. 1, 1772, in his 20th year, unmarried.
151. Sarah, b. April 1751, d. Jan. 27, 1831, unmarried.
152. Ellin, d. unmarried, 182 -.
153. Charles, married, but left no issue.
154. David, d. unmarried.
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III. (99.) JOHN EVANS, of Gwynedd, son of John and Eleanor, b. 12th mo. (February), 1730, d. 9th mo. (September), 1807, m. Nov. 19, 1734, MARGARET FOULKE, dau. of Evan and Ellen, of Gwynedd. (MARGARET, b. 4th mo. 19, 1726, d. 3d mo. 6. 1798 .- See Foulke Genealogy.) It was this JOHN who furnished Cadwalader, his nephew (son of Rowland), with the family data which form the basis of the Family Record, of 1797 and later. He was known in Gwynedd as "John Evans, the elder" (though his own father's name was John), in order to distinguish him from his son John. He was a prominent and active member of Gwynedd meeting. Joseph Foulke (elsewhere in this volume) gives some interesting reminiscences of him. He lived all his life at the old home of his father and grand- father, in Gwynedd (now [1896] the Hollingsworth estate place). "From letters in my possession, written to his son," says Rowland Evans, Esq., "he seems to have been an earnestly religious man." His will, which presents him as quite a rich man, was probated November 6, 1807. He gives his son John the "plantation, consisting of three tracts, where he now dwells," in Gwynedd, about 192 acres ; directs his son Cadwalader to release any supposed claim he may have on the fee or title, in consideration of bequests now made him; leaves two tracts (homestead) to his son Cadwalader, one 245 acres, the other 36, he to pay £500 to his [the testator's] grandsons John and Robert; bequeaths to his friends Levi Foulke, Jesse Foulke, and John Jones, jr., son of Evan, or their survivors, £20 in trust to keep up the burial ground enclosure at Gwynedd meeting, the fund to be used in the discretion of Gwynedd preparative meet- ing ; gives his son Cadwalader two undivided thirds in 50 acres of land adjoining the homestead, "late estate of
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brother Cadwalader," gives son Cadwalader the half residue of estate, the other half to grandson Robert ; gives £200 to son John ; gives £200 to grandsons Rowland and Evan in equal shares ; appoints son Cadwalader and grandson Robert executors.
IV. Children of John and Margaret :
155. Evan, d. 1757, aged 9 mos.
156. John, b. Sept. 7, 1759, d. 1814, m. Gaynor Iredell, Eleanor Yaxley. ₺
157. Cadwalader, b. 1762, d. 1841, m. Harriet V. Musser. ₺
158. Rowland, b. 1762 (twin brother to Cadwalader), "a merchant in Philadelphia," d. Ioth mo. 10, 1793, of yellow fever, unmarried.
IV. (116.) JONATHAN EVANS, of Philadelphia, carpenter, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. Ist mo. 25, 1759, m. 4th mo. 13, 1786, HANNAH BACON, dau. of David and Mary. A memo- rial of him, by the Southern District m. m. of Philadelphia, will be found reprinted in the Collection of 1879. " His parents gave him a liberal education at the schools under the care of Friends in this city, and possessing strong mental powers and quick perceptions, he made considerable profi- ciency in most of the branches of useful learning. He was placed apprentice to the carpenter's trade, and afterwards followed that business many years." At the period of his religious convincement " it was a time of great civil commo- tion, and about this period he was drafted as a soldier for the war of the Revolution. While many of the younger members of the Society were caught with the mar- tial spirit of the day, he was constrained to maintain his testimony, in support of which he suffered an imprisonment of sixteen weeks." "Having scruples respecting the pro- priety of doing the ornamental work that was put on build-
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ings, and persons generally declining to meet his scruples by giving him such parts as he was easy to do, he was many times under great difficulty in relation to the means of living, particularly when there was little building of any kind to be done." (The memorial says, however, in a later passage, that he retired from business many years before his death, having acquired a competence.) He was an overseer (in the Society of Friends) at the age of 24, and an elder at 36. In the 12th mo. 1826, after a sermon by Elias Hicks, to a very large congregation at 12th st. meeting in Philadel- phia, JONATHAN EVANS arose and declared at some length that the doctrines preached by Elias were not those held by the Society of Friends.I He subsequently took a prominent part in the movements of the "Separation." In 1837, in correspondence with John Wilbur, he reviewed sharply the positions taken by Joseph John Gurney.2 He d. in Phila- delphia, 2d mo. 8, 1839. HANNAH, b. 3d mo., 1765, d. 2d mo. 27, 1829. She was a minister among Friends, and there is a memorial of her in the Collection of 1879.
V. Children of Jonathan and Hannah :
159. William, b. 1787, d. 1867, m. Deborah Musgrave, Elizabeth Barton. ₱
160. Joseph, b. 1789, d. 1871, m. Grace Trimble.
161. Mary, b. 9th mo. 25, 1791, d. Ist mo. 28, 1859.
162. Hannah, b. 9th mo. 7, 1793, d. 8th mo. 21, 1865, m. at Pine St. m. h., Philadelphia, 11th mo. 4, 1818, Joseph Rhoads " of Marple twp., Delaware county, tanner," son of Joseph, dec'd, and Mary. Joseph, d. Ist mo. 16, 1861, in his 75th year. Issue of Joseph and Hannah (surname Rhoads) : Mary, m. Dr. Wm. E. Haines,
1 His remarks are given at length in the memorial. For a statement friendly to E. H., see Janney's History of Friends, Vol. IV., p. 155, et. seq.
" See John Wilbur's Journal, p, 228.
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and has issue ; Deborah; Joseph, m. Elizabeth Snowden, and has issue ; Hannah, d. young ; Elizabeth ; Dr. James E. (editor of Friends' Review, and . now (1884) president of Bryn Mawr Female College under care of Friends), m. Margaret W. Ely, and has issue ; Charles, of Haddonfield, N. J., conveyancer, m. Anna Nicholas, and Beulah S. Morris, and has surviving issue by first wife ; Jonathan E., of Wilmington, Del., m. Rebecca C. Garrett, and has issue.
163. Joel, b. 1796, d. 1865, m. Hannah Rhoads. ₱
164. Thomas, b. 1798, d. 1868, m. Catharine Wistar. ₱
165. Charles, b. 1802, d. 1879, m. Mary Lownes Smith. »
IV. (117.) EVAN EVANS, of Philadelphia, house-carpenter, son of Abraham and Lydia, m. 4th mo. 1, 1771, MARY HARMON, dau. of Tubal, of Philadelphia.
V. Children of Evan and Mary :
166. Jacob H., b. 2d mo. 8, 1772, m. Margaret Helm.₹
167. Sarah, b. 12th mo. 27, 1773.
168. Francis, b. Ioth mo. 12, 1780.
IV. (128.) CALEB EVANS, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, b. 2d mo. 16, 1768, d. 7th mo. 3, 1855, m. Ist, 1798, CATHARINE CONRAD, dau. of Peter, of Whitpain; 2d, 1820, AGNES ROBERTS (b. 1783, d. 1872), dau. of Cadwala- der and Mary. (See Roberts Genealogy.) CALEB lived for many years, and died, at the home of his father (now the Ellen H. Evans place). He had but two children who grew up,- one by each wife.
V. Children of Caleb and Catharine :
169. Peter C., b. 1799, d. 1880, m. Margaret Jenkins.
Children of Caleb and Agnes :
170. Cadwalader R., b. 1821, d. 1861, m. Ellen H. Shoemaker. 17I. Elizabeth, b. 1824, d. 1825.
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IV. (130.) NATHAN EVANS, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, b. Ist mo. 25, 1772, d. Ist mo. 19, 1826, m. 12th mo. 14, 1810, ANN SHOEMAKER (b. 1786, d. 1863), dau. of Thomas and Tacy.
V. Children of Nathan and Ann :
172. Charles, b. 1811, m. Mary M. Morgan, Sarah M. Harris. + 173. Edmund, b. 1816, d. 1847, m. Jane R. Smith ; no issue.
IV. (133.) JONATHAN EVANS, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, b. at Gwynedd, 6th mo. 26, 1778, d. 4th mo. 7, 1844, m. at Richland, Bucks co., 10th mo. 5, 1809, ELIZABETH IDEN (d. Ist mo. 23, 1824), dau. of George and Hannah.I JONATHAN taught school "near Everard Foulke's," at Richland (half a mile from Bunker Hill), for two years after his marriage, and then removed to Gwynedd, where he taught for several years. In 1816 or '17 he removed to Sandy Hill (Whit- pain), where he remained teaching until after the death of his wife, in 1824, and then discontinued housekeeping. In 1832 and '33 he was in Ohio, near Mt. Pleasant, with his son, and then returned to Gwynedd, where he made his home 2 with his brother Caleb.
V. Children of Jonathan and Elizabeth :
174. Thomas I., b. 1810, d. 1883, m. Ann Worthington. 175. George I., b. 1812, m. Sarah Griffith, Mary P. Richards. 176. Caleb, b. 1815, m. Sarah Black. ₺
177. William R., b. 1817, m. Mary W. Allen, Martha S. Carr. ₺ 178. Job, b. 1820, d. same year.
179. Hannah I., b. 1821, m. Thomas D. Tomlinson, of Marietta, Iowa, and has issue 9 children.
1 Hannah was the dau. of Samuel and Ann Foulke; see Foulke Genealogy.
2 Some further details will be given hereafter concerning Jonathan's work as a teacher, at Gwynedd and Montgomery.
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IV. (156.) JOHN EVANS, of Gwynedd, son of John and Margaret, b. September 7, 1759, d. 1814, m., Ist, GAYNOR IREDELL (d. 12th mo. 12, 1785), dau. of Robert, of Montgomery ; 2d, ELEANOR YAXLEY,1 dau. of - and Esther. Esther was the dau. of Evan Foulke by his second wife; Margaret Evans, mother of this JOHN, was Evan's daughter by his first wife ; this couple were therefore nearly first cousins, their mothers being half sisters. (See Foulke Genealogy.) JOHN received by the will of his father, part of the Evan Foulke tract on the Penllyn road, adjoining Spring-House. (See No. 99, this Genealogy.) ELEANOR survived him.
V. Children of John and Gaynor :
180. John F., b. 9th mo. 3, 1784. He was living as late as 1814, and had been a clerk or assistant in business to his uncle Cadwalader (No. 157).
181. Robert I., b. IIth mo. 14, 1785, d. July 29, 1822. It will be seen by the date above that his mother d. when he was but a few weeks old. He engaged successfully in business in Philadelphia, and d, unm., July 29, 1822. There is a letter from him among the Cad- wallader Foulke papers, dated July 21, 1818, in which he regrets his present inability to visit Gwynedd, as he is about leaving for Montreal and Quebec, by way of Ballston and Saratoga, intending to be absent a month. His estate was settled by Roberts Vaux, Esq., of Philad'a, administrator. An obituary article in MS., among the Cadw. Foulke papers (taken apparently from a Phila- delphia newspaper) says he was brought up by his grandfather (John Evans, No. 99, who left him valuable bequests), and lived with him till 1805, when he engaged as an apprentice to a mer- cantile house in Philadelphia. The article describes him in terms
1 Eleanor's mother, Esther Foulke, m. an Ely, according to one authority ; and some accounts call her husband Yearsley ; but in a bond dated March 26, 1800, ELEANOR herself is called YAXLEY, and signs her name to a receipt for interest on the back of it " Nellie Yaxley,"-which seems to be conclusive that her own name was neither Ely nor Yearsley, when she m. John Evans. See reference to her in Foulke Genealogy, post.
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of warm praise as a very exemplary and much beloved man, de- voted in his leisure to literature and scientific studies, and with "talents and acquirements remarkably devoted to the good of his fellow creatures." He was one of the Directors of the Public Schools ; of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb ; a Manager of the Apprentices' Library, and actively interested in other public institutions. (See Cadwallader Foulke's allusion to his death, p. 142.)
Children of John and Eleanor :
182. Rowland, b. 1Ith mo. 18, 1802. He was living in 1809.
183. Evan C., b. 8th mo. 29, 1805. He was living at the time of his father's death, 1814, and later, but d., probably unm., before 1828. Cadwalader Roberts was his guardian, and Cadwallader Foulke adm'r of his estate.
184. Randolph W.
185. Esther.
[Both the last named probably d. young.]
IV. (157.) CADWALADER EVANS, junior, son of John and Mar- garet, of Gwynedd, b. at Gwynedd, Dec. 25, 1762, d. Oct. 26, 1841, m. HARRIET VERENA MUSSER, dau. of John, of Lancas- ter, Pa. A sketch of CADWALADER will be given elsewhere.
V. Children of Cadwalader and Harriet :
186. Juliana Doddridge, d. 1866, unm.
187. Margaret Eleanor, unm.
188. John Glendour, d. 1827, unm.
189. Rowland Edanis, d. 1866, unm.
190. Edmund Cadwalader, b. 1812, d. 1881, m. Mary Louisa Allen.
191. William Elbert, b. 1816, d. 1869, m. Anna Smith, Emma Fot- terall. #
192. Cadwalader, d. 1861, unm.
193. Manlius Glendower, b. 1821, d. 1879, m. Ellen Kuhn. +
194. Harriet Verena, m. Gouverneur Morris Ogden, Esq,, of New York (d. July, 1884), and had issue : Cadwalader E., David B., Gouverneur Morris, all living in New York (1884).
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V. (159.) WILLIAM EVANS, of Philadelphia, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. 10th mo. 5, 1787, d. 5th mo. 12, 1867, m., Ist, 18II, DEBORAH MUSGRAVE (d. 6th mo. 27, 1815, in her 28th year), dau. of Aaron and Abigail ; and 2d, 12th mo. 23, 1824, ELIZABETH BARTON (b. in Newton, Camden Co., N. J., Ist mo. 2, 1794, d. I Ith mo. 14, 1861), dau. of John and Rebecca. Of WILLIAM and both his wives there are memorials, pub- lished in the volume issued in 1879 by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (O.) WILLIAM, " during his whole life was a mem- ber of this [Southern District] monthly meeting." He appeared as a minister in 1817 ; was recommended in 1822. He traveled considerably in religious work, and was much interested in education amongst Friends. In connection with his brother, Thomas Evans, he edited a series of fourteen volumes of the " Friends' Library," made up of " journals, doctrinal treatises, and other writings of Friends," the series being begun in 1837, and one volume issued each year. WILLIAM and Thomas also edited, 1854, a new edition of " Piety Promoted," a " Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People called Quakers." (Part of this was originally edited by John Tomkins, London, 1701, and successive parts were added by John Field, John Bell, Josiah Wagstaffe, Josiah Forster, and others.) For many years he was a clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (O.) His journal was pub- lished in 1870, edited by his brother, Dr. Charles Evans. DEBORAH died at the early age of 28. ELIZABETH was a minister ; she first spoke as such in the meeting at Newton, N. J., in 1815 ; in 1818, Haddonfield monthly and quarterly meetings acknowledged her ministry. She d. somewhat suddenly while on a visit to Salem, N. J.
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VI. Children of William and Deborah :
195. Abigail, b. Ioth mo. 1, 1812, m. Horatio C. Wood, and had issue: William E., b. 1854.
196. Jonathan, b. 4th mo. 29, 1814, d. 7th mo. 5, 1841. (He was a druggist, at 3d and Spruce Sts., Philad'a, the stand previously occupied by his uncle Thomas Evans.)
Children of William and Elizabeth :
197. Rebecca, b. roth mo. 5, 1825, d. 11th mo. 13, 1836.
198. Hannah, b. 6th mo. 7, 1827.
199. Elizabeth R., b. 7th mo. 4, 1830.
200. William, b. 8th mo. 1835, m. Rebecca Carter ; and has issue : John C., b. 1868 ; Charles b. 1870 ; Alice C., b. 1872 ; Grace B., 1874; William B., b. 1875 ; Ruth, b. 1877. (William is (1884) of the firm of Evans & Yarnall, Philadelphia, and resides at Moorestown, N. J.)
V. (160.) JOSEPH EVANS, of Delaware county, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. 9th mo. 28, 1789, d. 2d mo. 10, 1871, m. 5th mo. 26, 1814, at Uwchlan m. h., GRACE TRIMBLE (b. 12th mo. 24, 1789, d. 8th mo. 17, 1867), dau. of William and Ann. They resided in Springfield township, Del. Co. "They were much esteemed and exemplary members of the Society of Friends, in which she [as well as her husband] was for many years an elder."
VI. Children of Joseph and Grace :
201. Ann C., b. 3d mo. 21, 1815, m. 5th mo. 6, 1847, Isaac C. Evans, (b. 3d mo. 23, 1818), son of Isaac and Mary, and has issue : Mary, Joseph, Isaac, Anne, Lydia, Rowland, William.
202. Hannah, b. 1817, d. 1826.
203. William, b. 1819, d. 1821.
204. Mary b. 5th mo. 23, 1823, m. I Ith mo. 7, 1844, William Mickle, of New Jersey (b. 7th mo. 24, 1813, d. 6th mo. 16, 1856), son of George and Mary, and has issue : Anne, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, William.
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205. Joseph, b. 1825, d. 1826.
206. Thomas, b. 8th mo. 24, 1830, m. and has issue : Charles, Mary, Grace. (Howard Co., Maryland.)
207. John, b. 1833, d. 1851.
V. (163.) JOEL EVANS, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. 3d mo. 7, 1796, d. 5th mo. 13, 1865, m. HANNAH RHOADS. He was an elder in the Society of Friends, and for some time (after the service of his brother William in that capacity) clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (O.)
VI. Children of Joel and Hannah :
208. Mary, d. 8th mo. 27, 1850, in her 29th year, m. William Rhoads, jr., and had issue : Mary.
209. William, d. Ist mo. 24, 1843, in his 20th year.
210. Owen, m. Lydia Thompson, and has issue : Mary, Beulah T., Edwin, and William.
21I. Hannah, b. 1830, d. 1893.
212. Charles, m. Anna Belle Kirby, and has issue : C. Wistar, and four who d. young.
213. Samuel, m. Anne Taylor, and has issue : Mary, Eleanor, Caro- line, Albert and Bertha.
214. Joel, m. Emma Stokley, and has issue : Mary, William and Laura. (Three children of JOEL and HANNAH, named Joel, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, d. young.)
V. (164.) THOMAS EVANS, of Philadelphia, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. 2d mo. 23, 1798, d. 5th mo. 25, 1868, m. CATHA- RINE WISTAR, dau. of John and Charlotte, of Salem, N. J. She d. 12th mo. 5, 1871, in her 70th year. THOMAS EVANS was an eminent minister among Friends, whose preaching was characterized by " winning eloquence." An extended memorial of him is in the collection published by Phila. Y. M. (O). in 1879. He received a strong religious im- pression in his youth; at 21 he began business ; at 23 he
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went, as companion to George Withy, an English minister, and traveled four months in the Southern and Western States. At the time of the Separation in the Society of Friends, 1827-8, he took an active and very prominent part (on the side of the body distinguished as Orthodox.) He first spoke in the ministry in 1832, while on a religious visit to Virginia, but did not again speak for some years,- about 1838. In 1844 his ministry was approved. About this time his health became much impaired, and he fixed his residence for four years in the country, after which he returned to the city. In 1837 he joined his brother William in editing " Friends' Library," a series of fourteen volumes, and later, "Piety Promoted," in four vols. (Philadelphia : 1854.) He wrote, besides, "A Concise Account of the Religious Society of Friends," " An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends," " Youthful Piety," etc. His feeble health was occasioned in part, if not entirely, by an injury to his spine caused by extreme exertions on board a ship, during a storm, on a voyage to Charleston, S. C.,- his errand being to look after the Friends' meeting property in that city.1
1 An elaborate obituary notice of THOMAS EVANS, published in the Philadelphia North American, June 22, 1868, and ascribed to Edward Hopper, contains these passages : "This [the So. of Friends] was to him a most precious communion. His affections, his time, his talents, were all given without stint to the support of this body of Christians, whose principles, testimonies, and we might say minute peculiarities, were subjects of his entire approval, and whose tenets found an un- qualified response in his religious convictions." [Having referred to his clearness of view, and acumen in expression, with reference to the history, doctrine, and discipline of Friends ; and to the fact that, although quite a young man, he was a leading witness in the great New Jersey chancery suit, in 1829-33, the article says :] " His testimony as presented to the Court, and which has been preserved in printed records, exhibits a knowledge of the points involved, and a power of ready expression, with a thorough understanding of everything that had a bearing upon the subject connected with the issue, unsurpassed by anything which is to be found in the annals of religious
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VI. Children of Thomas and Catharine :
215. John Wistar, b. 4th mo. 7, 1836, d. 12th mo. 29, 1873, m. Eleanor Stokes, and had issue : Elizabeth W., Thomas, J. Wistar, Eleanor.
216. Thomas Wistar, b. 12th mo. 15, 1837, d. 2d mo. 16, 1857.
217. Hannah Bacon, b. 9th mo. 19, 1839.
218. Katharine, b. 7th mo. 14, 1841, m. Francis Stokes, and has issue : Katharine E., Henry W., Esther, Edith, Francis Joseph.
219. Jonathan, b. 8th mo. 16, 1843, m. Rachel R. Cope, and has issue : Anna C., F. Algernon, Edward W. Jonathan resides at Germantown : was some time of the firm of Cooper, Jones & Cadbury, Philadelphia.
V. (165.) CHARLES EVANS, M.D., of Philadelphia, son of Jona- than and Hannah, b. 12th mo. 25, 1802, d. 4th mo. 20, 1879, m. MARY LOWNES SMITH, who survived him. CHARLES was an elder in the Society of Friends, conspicuous for his exer- tions in the interests of that religious society, and much engaged in benevolent and philanthropic labors. He was for many years attending physician at the Frankford Asylum for the Insane, and strongly interested in the treatment of mental diseases, on the care of which he was much con- sulted. He was some time editor of The Friend. He edited, in 1870, the Journal of his brother William, and wrote " Friends in the Seventeenth Century." (New ed., Philad'a, 1876.) He left no issue.
V. (166.) JACOB HARMON EVANS, son of Evan and Mary, b. 2d mo. 8, 1772, m. MARGARET HELM.
litigation." [Of his character as a preacher the notice says :] " His manner, though often much subdued by a sense of personal unworthiness, was animated, and the messages which he bore were often beautifully illustrated by apt and facile expression and striking analogies; and, while retaining all the simplicity and earnestness of an apostle, he was eloquent in a high degree, and withal there was a baptizing unction attending his ministry, which reached the hearts and minds of many."
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