Lewis Evans

Who was Lewis Evans?

Lewis Evans, 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:

A Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the Three Delaware Counties See Image

A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America

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 lies in the famous Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. After his death, his only daughter Amelia 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. The painter and engraver Alfredo Müller, and his brother Rodolfo, cycling champion, are among her descendants.