Lewis Evans

Welsh surveyor and geographer · Scientists · Lived 1700 to 1756 · aged 56

Lewis Evans was a Welsh surveyor and geographer. He had a brother John. In the mid-1730s he emigrated to British America, where he was based in Philadelphia. He was well known for his 1755 map of the Middle British Colonies.

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

A Map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware Counties, Lewis Evans, 1749

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