NATHANIEL EVANS, a native of England, born 1742, was a young man who had an excellent classical education and possessed great talent. He was admitted to Holy Orders in London, came to America, and was chosen missionary to the Protestant Episcopal Churches at Colestown and Gloucester by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and served six years in that position. He died October, 1767, at the early age of twenty-five years, and his remains were interred at Christ Church, Philadelphia. At the time of his death he left, in manuscript form, a collection of poems, most of which were descriptive of local scenes and incidents, and of the beauties of the landscape scenery of the Delaware and vicinity. These poems show that the author had real poetic ability, and was a man of superior classical culture. They were published in book-form many years after his death, a copy of which maybe found in the Franklin Library, Philadelphia. The book was sold by subscription, and the names of the subscribers appear in it.