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    1. Nathan Evans of Willistown Township, Chester County, PA
    2. Mark E. Dixon
    3. Hi, Friends Can anyone on the list help me place -- genealogically speaking -- Nathan Evans, who is described in the following paragraph? This is from an article on local Underground Railroad sites in the Tredyffrin History Club Quarterly of October 1962. Tredyffrin is a township in eastern Chester County, PA -- adjacent to Willistown Township. "Nathan Evans of Willistown was a ministerof the Society of Friends who, because of his many discourses on the subjects of slavery and temperance, was finally disowned from membership. He was inflexible and almostalonein the cause in his neighborhood. However, he continued to attend meeting regularly and to preach in spite of the opposition. The fugitives came to him from West Chester and the western and southern parts of Chester County. He then forwarded them to Pennypacker's, to Philadelphia, and to James Lewis's in Delaware County. The first antislavery meeting in Willistown was held inthe Friends Meeting schoolhouse, twelfth month, 17th, 1836, presided over by Nathan Evans. The first Negroes to be taken to the antislavery office in Philadelphia were four delivered by Evans, August 19, 1842." Thanks! Mark

    02/17/2005 09:29:30