Evan Evans

  General Notes:

H.M. Jenkins (1897):
He was a preacher among Friends, and a memorial of him by Gwynedd (1787) is in the next paragraph. He lived by the present mill (still standing at the corner of Swedesford Rd. and Township Line Rd.) on the Wissahickon, now (1884) belonging to Henry Mumbower. His will, dated 5th mo. 3, 1747 was proved 3 Aug of that year. He leaves bequests to his sons Abraham, Jonathan, Musgrave, David and Daniel, and his dau. Barbara. He mentions his wife's uncle, Jonathan Cockshaw. He appoints his wife Elizabeth and sons Jonathan as his executors, with authority to sell the farm he lives on, about 200 acres. He appoints his brother, Owen Evans, his cousin, Thomas Evans jr. (son of Owen), and William Foulke, trustees for his children.
"Returning to our notice of Evan Evans, we find him mentioned by John Churchman as a "grave and solid Friend." Gwynedd Monthly Meeting's memorial speaks of him strongly. One or two passages have already been cited. It says "he was favored with an excellent gift in the ministry, which he exercised in solemn dread and reverence. **** Besides his travels through many of the colonies, he also frequently visited the several counties in this province, and more particularly many of the adjacent meetings in their infancy; wherein his unwearied labours of love tended much to their comfort, growth, and establishment in the truth. " The memorial alludes to his usefulness in the administration of the Society's discipline, and to his consistency of conduct in private life; it adds that "he was abroad in the service of truth when attacked with his last illness; and as the disorder was slow and tedious, he attended several meetings in the fore part thereof, " etc. He was about 63 years old when he died, --July 24th, 1747."

Evan married Elizabeth Musgrave, daughter of Thomas Musgrave and Hannah Cockshaw, on 13 Sep 1713 in Haverford MM, Chester, Pennsylvania. (Elizabeth Musgrave was born about 1690 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.)