Son George was born 19 August 1813 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. [Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620 - 1988.]
NB: Although his daughter Harriet's obituary gave Robert Evans' place of origin as Massachusetts, a book about his son in law gave Robert Evans' birthplace as "near Germantown Pennsylvania."
From said book, "The Ancestry of Edward Wells of Quincy Illinois," by Lucy Woodwell, pub. 1900 in Chicago by Frank Wells:
"On the nineteenth of March 1837 Edward Wells married Mary Babson Evans, daughter of Captain Robert Evans, who had emigrated from Boston in 1835. Robert Evans was born in 1784, near Germantown Pennsylvania, and died at residence of Edward Wells, Quincy Illinois, 1866.
Conceiving a passionate longing for the sea in boyhood, he inaugurated an eventful career by running away from home and shipping, probably at Philadelphia. There is no record of his experience as a sailor boy, but in young manhood, we find him settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and making voyages to the West Indies as captain of the schooner Polly of that port.
In the War of 1812, there were some miraculous escapes of the Polly from British men-of-war. At one time, Captain Evans deliberately ran her aground to avoid capture, and later succeeded in getting off with but little injury to vessel or cargo. His daring on this occasion led to his appointment to the command of the Thrasher, a privateer fitted out by the town."
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- research and bio by Tree Leaf.
NB: Although his daughter Harriet's obituary gave Robert Evans' place of origin as Massachusetts, a book about his son in law gave Robert Evans' birthplace as "near Germantown Pennsylvania."
From said book, "The Ancestry of Edward Wells of Quincy Illinois," by Lucy Woodwell, pub. 1900 in Chicago by Frank Wells:
"On the nineteenth of March 1837 Edward Wells married Mary Babson Evans, daughter of Captain Robert Evans, who had emigrated from Boston in 1835. Robert Evans was born in 1784, near Germantown Pennsylvania, and died at residence of Edward Wells, Quincy Illinois, 1866.
Conceiving a passionate longing for the sea in boyhood, he inaugurated an eventful career by running away from home and shipping, probably at Philadelphia. There is no record of his experience as a sailor boy, but in young manhood, we find him settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and making voyages to the West Indies as captain of the schooner Polly of that port.
In the War of 1812, there were some miraculous escapes of the Polly from British men-of-war. At one time, Captain Evans deliberately ran her aground to avoid capture, and later succeeded in getting off with but little injury to vessel or cargo. His daring on this occasion led to his appointment to the command of the Thrasher, a privateer fitted out by the town."
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- research and bio by Tree Leaf.
Son George was born 19 August 1813 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. [Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620 - 1988.]
NB: Although his daughter Harriet's obituary gave Robert Evans' place of origin as Massachusetts, a book about his son in law gave Robert Evans' birthplace as "near Germantown Pennsylvania."
From said book, "The Ancestry of Edward Wells of Quincy Illinois," by Lucy Woodwell, pub. 1900 in Chicago by Frank Wells:
"On the nineteenth of March 1837 Edward Wells married Mary Babson Evans, daughter of Captain Robert Evans, who had emigrated from Boston in 1835. Robert Evans was born in 1784, near Germantown Pennsylvania, and died at residence of Edward Wells, Quincy Illinois, 1866.
Conceiving a passionate longing for the sea in boyhood, he inaugurated an eventful career by running away from home and shipping, probably at Philadelphia. There is no record of his experience as a sailor boy, but in young manhood, we find him settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and making voyages to the West Indies as captain of the schooner Polly of that port.
In the War of 1812, there were some miraculous escapes of the Polly from British men-of-war. At one time, Captain Evans deliberately ran her aground to avoid capture, and later succeeded in getting off with but little injury to vessel or cargo. His daring on this occasion led to his appointment to the command of the Thrasher, a privateer fitted out by the town."
______
- research and bio by Tree Leaf.
NB: Although his daughter Harriet's obituary gave Robert Evans' place of origin as Massachusetts, a book about his son in law gave Robert Evans' birthplace as "near Germantown Pennsylvania."
From said book, "The Ancestry of Edward Wells of Quincy Illinois," by Lucy Woodwell, pub. 1900 in Chicago by Frank Wells:
"On the nineteenth of March 1837 Edward Wells married Mary Babson Evans, daughter of Captain Robert Evans, who had emigrated from Boston in 1835. Robert Evans was born in 1784, near Germantown Pennsylvania, and died at residence of Edward Wells, Quincy Illinois, 1866.
Conceiving a passionate longing for the sea in boyhood, he inaugurated an eventful career by running away from home and shipping, probably at Philadelphia. There is no record of his experience as a sailor boy, but in young manhood, we find him settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and making voyages to the West Indies as captain of the schooner Polly of that port.
In the War of 1812, there were some miraculous escapes of the Polly from British men-of-war. At one time, Captain Evans deliberately ran her aground to avoid capture, and later succeeded in getting off with but little injury to vessel or cargo. His daring on this occasion led to his appointment to the command of the Thrasher, a privateer fitted out by the town."
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- research and bio by Tree Leaf.
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