Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)
- Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)
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. [Lamborn, Suzanne Parry (2006), "John and Sarah Roberts, with many related families", Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press, p. 150 ISBN 1-932864-58-X] 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 and war tax resistance. [Gross, David M. "American Quaker War Tax Resistance" (2008) pp. 90-91, 93, 201-202 ISBN 1438260156]
Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died in 1798.
His papers are currently being re-examined and re-edited by historians at the Swarthmore Friends Historical Library for an online edition.
References
External links
* [http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5190joev.xml Joshua Evans Papers at Swarthmore College] Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.
* [http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue6.html#7 The Peaceable Table] Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.
* [http://sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=12May08 Joshua Evans’s writings on war tax resistance]
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