Lewis Evans (surveyor)

Evans' General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, published in 1755, was made in collaboration with Thomas Pownall, to whom Evans dedicated it.

Lewis Evans (ca. 1700 – 1756) was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, working principally in British America.

Lewis Evans was born in Caernarfonshire, Wales. He travelled to the British colonies in North America and produced the following maps:

The latter map, whose creation was inspired and supported by British colonial observer Thomas Pownall, was used by General Edward Braddock during the French and Indian War. Evans also undertook work for Benjamin Franklin. Lewis Evans died in New York, but lies in the famous Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. After his death, his only daughter Amelia (Philadelphia 1744-Hythe, Southampton 1835) was brought up by Deborah and Benjamin Franklin. She happened to live in Tunis and married a captain of the Irish Merchant marine, David Barry, who died in Pisa and was buried in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno in 1781. She published anonymously Memoirs of Maria, a Persian Slave, 1790.[1] The painter and engraver Alfredo Müller (1869-1939), and his brother Rodolfo (1876-1947), cycling champion, are among her descendants.

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  1. ↑ Hélène Koehl, Matteo Giunti, Amelia Evans Barry (1744-1835) ou quand Livourne décidait d’un destin de femme et d’écrivain, Nuovi Studi Livornesi, XIV, 2007, p.95-118.

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Wikisource has the text of an 1879 American Cyclopædia article about Lewis Evans (surveyor).


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