EVANS, CADWALADR (1664 - 1745), Pennsylvanian Welsh Quaker
Date of birth: 1664
Date of death: 1745
Gender: Male
Occupation: Pennsylvanian Welsh Quaker
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Robert (Bob) Owen
Born at Fron-goch in the parish of Llanfor, Meironnydd. He joined the Society of Friends, emigrated to Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, in 1698, and was accepted into the ministry of the Friends. He died in 1745, aged 81. Cadwaladr Evans was great-great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
- Robert (Bob) Owen, (1885 - 1962)
- Browning, Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia 1912)
- T. A. Glenn, Merion in the Welsh Tract with sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor: historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the province of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682 (1896) and Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania (Oxford 1911-13)
- J. Bowden, The history of the Society of Friends in America (1850, 1854), ii, 267
- A Collection of Memorials concerning Divers deceased Ministers … of the People called Quakers in Pennsylvania (1788)
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20732679
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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