Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)
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Joshua Evans was a prominent Quaker minister from the southwest region of New Jersey.
He was born 23 September 1731, the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Owen) Evans, near Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey.[1]
In 1753, he married Priscilla Collins in Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, Haddonfield, New Jersey. 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.
Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died 6 July 1798.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lamborn, p. 150
[edit] References
- Lamborn, Suzanne Parry (2006), John and Sarah Roberts, with many related families, Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press, ISBN 1-932864-58-X
