| Last name | Evans |
| First name | Joshua |
| Display name | Joshua Evans |
| Birth date | 1731 |
| Death date | 1798 |
| Birth place | Evesham |
| Death place | Haddonfield |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends, Haddonfield Friends meeting |
| Bio notes | Quaker minister. Born in 1731, the son of Thomas and Rebekah Evans of Evesham, New Jersey. Apprenticed to a bricklayer. Married Priscilla Collins in 1753 and moved to Mt. Holly and then to Newton in 1761. Abstained from liquor, tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, and dyed clothing. Wore a beard. For ~13 years his meeting did not release him to travel in the ministry "on account of his peculiarities" but in 1794 he was set to visit New England and from that point travelled widely in the ministry. Often visited the Indians near Indian Mills, NJ, with John Hunt, taking blankets and supplies. Married Ann Kay in 1777. Died in 1798. |
Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.
Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)
John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom
