Individual Details

He was one of the orignial settlers of Gwynedd twp. He owned 609 acres with boundaries today approximately from Swedesford Rd. to Evans Rd. and Sumneytown Pike to the Montgomery twp. line. He was a preacher, after joining the Friends. A memorial concerning him, by Gwynedd monthly meeting is as follows: "He was a diligent and seasonable attender of our religious meetings. On First-days particularly he was ready an hour beforethe time appointed, and then read several chapters in the Bible or some religious book; as the time approached he would frequently observe the time of day and by means of such watchful care he was seated in meetings one of the first, and scarcely ever after the time appointed. He received a gift in the ministry, in the exercise whereof he was generally led to speak of his own experience in religion and the Christian warfare; and his testimony, though short, was instructive, lively, and manisfestly attended with divine sweetness. Notwithstanding it was always acceptable, he was very cautious of appearing, lest any, as he often said, shouldbe drawn from a right concern of mind, to place a dependence on words." The memorial further speaks of his usefulness "in many services of the church, especially that weighty one of visiting Friends in their families," and says his endeavors "in that skillful and tender office of healing discord in private families were remarkably successful. In such services he spentmuch of the latter part of his life, riding about from one house to another; and where no cause of reprehension appeared, he interspersed his discourse on common affairs with useful hints, solid remarks, and lessons of instruction; but where admonition or comfort was necessary, the propriety of his advice, and the uprightness of his life, added weight to his labors and seldom failed ofgood effects... It was his practice, in winter evenings especially, to read the holy scriptures in his family, and was particularly careful that neither chilod nor servant should be from home at unseasonable hours, being highly sensible how slippery the paths of youth are, and how numerous the snares which attend them." (Memorial Collection of 1787, reported by Howard Jenkins)

Birth	1664	Merionethshire, Wales
Marriage	Est 1689	, , Wales - Ellen Morris
Death	30 May 1745	Gwynedd, Philadelphia (Montgomery) Co., PA

Spouse	Ellen Morris (1668 - )
Child	Sarah Evans (1690 - )
Child	John Evans (1689 - 1756)
Child	Hugh Evans (1690 - )