Joshua Evans (September 23, 1731 – July 6, 1798) was an American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist.
He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham Township in Burlington County, New Jersey.[1] Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at HaddonfieldMonthly Meeting on November 2, 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.[2]
Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died in 1798.