Person:Rodger Evans (1)

Research Notes

• per Phebe Morgan: The London Tract Baptist Church, of which a number of the Evans families were

members is located in Indian Town, London Britain Township in Chester County. The land for the church and cemetery was given by his [Roger's] brother John. The early notes of that church were destroyed by a servant girl who worked in the home of the church clerk, she tore the leaves from the old book and used them in lighting fires. Lettice is the younger of the sisters, therefore she would have married after her sister. Which places her in the correct age and time category to be the wife of Thomas Morgan. In the will of Rodger Evans, he gives each daughter the sum of 5 shillings. His well beloved wife Mary is named executrix. An appraisal is made by Richard Whitting -- whose family name appears on the later records of the London Tract Baptist Church and is buried in the cemetery. Rodger Evans owed Thomas Morgan the sum of L5 as listed on the account filed on May 31, 1740. After a search of the cemetery his [?Roger's?] grave could not be located; however, there are many unmarked graves and graves with missing headstones.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Roger Evans, in Nivin, Septimus Evans. Evans, Whitting, Davis. (Philadelphia: Philadelpia International Print, 1922)
   p 1.

   JOHN EVANS.
   Evans, a native of Radnorshire, Wales, landed in Philadelphia in the year 1695, with his family, consisting of his wife, two sons Roger and John, and the latter's wife Lydia and their daughter.
   Evans, m. They had two sons (1 and 2) Roger and John.
   
   FIRST GENERATION
   1. Roger Evans.
   m. Mary _____, and had children. (3 and 4) Eleanor and Lettice.
   
   p 1 -
   ... The will of Roger Evans of London Britain, in the County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania, dated January 3, 1738. (Will book B page 34)
   Item. - I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Eleanor (now married to Morgan Jones) the sum of five shillings.
   Item. - I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Lettice (now married to Thomas Morgan) the sum of five shillings.
   Item. - I give to Mary, my well beloved wife, whom I likewise constitute my executrix, all and singular my lands, tenements, goods and chattels by her freely to be possessed and enjoyed while she continues my widow. Provides for a possible unborn child.

   I constitute my well beloved friends John Jones and William Sample supervisors of this my last will and to stand as guardians.
   

   Letters granted to Mary Evans, February 6, 1738.
   Appraisal made by Richard Whitting and John Rankin, L 105-3-1.
   In an account filed May 31, 1740, an allowance is claimed for cash paid Moses Scott for a coffin, six shillings.