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Last name Evans
First name Jon
Display name Jonathan Evans, Jr.
Birth date 1759
Death date 1839
Birth place Philadelphia
Death place Philadelphia
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, South Branch Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings.
Bio notes Born in Philadelphia, the son of Jonathan and Hannah Walton Evans. Member of Southern District Monthly Meeting (Philadelphia). Appointed an Overseer in 1782, Elder in 1794, Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting from 1795 to 1811, and Clerk of Meeting for Sufferings from 1809 until his death. Married Hannah Bacon in 1786. One of the founders of Westtown School and Friends Asylum, and served as an Overseer of William Penn Charter School. Opposed Elias Hicks.

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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795