The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Evans, Lewis

EVANS, Lewis, an American geographer and surveyor, born about 1700, died in June, 1756. During an active professional life he collected many materials for a map of the British North American colonies, and in 1749 published one of the middle colonies, chiefly of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, and of the Indian country adjacent. A second edition appeared in 1755, much enlarged, and containing in addition Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and a part of New England. He also published “Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical, and Mechanical Essays” (No. 1, Philadelphia, 1755; No. 2, London, 1756). A new edition of his map appeared in 1776.