Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)
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Joshua Evans (23 September 1731 – 6 July 1798) was a renowned American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist.
He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey.[1] Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on 2 November 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.
Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died in 1798.
[edit] References
- ^ Lamborn, Suzanne Parry (2006), John and Sarah Roberts, with many related families, Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press, p. 150 ISBN 1-932864-58-X
[edit] External links
- Joshua Evans Papers at Swarthmore College Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.
- The Peaceable Table Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.
- Joshua Evans’s writings on war tax resistance
