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He was born in Pennsylvania and spent a considerable portion of his life there.
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Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays: The First, Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British ... A Description of the Face of the Country
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Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing an analysis of a general map of the middle British colonies in America
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Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical And Mechanical Essays. Number Ii.: Containing A Letter, Representing The Impropriety Of Sending ... Virginia: The Importance Of Taking Frontenac
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Lewis Evans
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He was early trained as a surveyor.
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In the "Analysis, " Evans pointed out the advantages to the English colonies of the Ohio country and urged a general study of that region and the ways by which it might be reached so that the French might be more easily driven out.
This map, which was used by Braddock in his campaign, soon came to be regarded as the best map of the region; and because of the care and accuracy with which it was prepared was generally accepted as the standard authority in settling boundary disputes. In dedicating his map to Governor Thos.
Pownall with the encomium that he esteemed him the best judge of it in America, Evans, long the tool of the Pownall faction, aroused bitter feeling among the Shirley adherents who, through a letter published in the New York Mercury of January 5, 1756, severely criticized the "Analysis" and its writer. Evans, undaunted, published five days later, Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. Number II, in which he replied to his opponents in a vigorous fashion.
He contemplated continuing the series, but in the following June he died, in New York City, while under arrest for a slander against Governor Robert Hunter Morris (Stevens, post, 1920, p. 13).
Another project which he never carried out was that of publishing maps of the separate colonies in greater detail and upon a larger scale. Evans's influence upon maps of America did not terminate with his death, however, for the London publishers pirated his map as early as 1756 and within the next half century repeatedly reissued it. Some of these editions give credit to Evans, while others do not.
Chief among the former is Governor Pownall's map of 1776 which together with his Topographical Description of North America (1776) is practically a new and enlarged edition of both Evans's map and his "Analysis. "
Although Pownall denounced the pirated editions of Evans's work, others continued to issue from the press, and even as late as 1814 the old copper plate of Kitchin's piracy of 1756, after fifty-eight years of life, was reissued as a new and general map.
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In the pursuit of this occupation traveled extensively throughout the Middle Colonies. During these travels he made many observations and collected much material for "A Map of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, New-York, And the Three Delaware Counties" which was published in 1749. This map is especially important because it traced in considerable detail the roads centering in Lancaster, York, and Carlisle, over which the great migrations from Pennsylvania across Virginia to the Carolinas and Tennessee took place. In 1752 he published a revision of this map, incorporating several corrections and additions. His best-known map, however, is "A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, " which included the country from the Falls of the Ohio to Narragansett Bay and from Virginia to Montreal. This was published in 1755 in connection with a pamphlet of Geographical, Historical, Political. Philosophical and Mechanical Essays: The First, Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America . Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall. MDCCLV.
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Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays: The First, Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British ... A Description of the Face of the Country
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Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing an analysis of a general map of the middle British colonies in America
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Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical And Mechanical Essays. Number Ii.: Containing A Letter, Representing The Impropriety Of Sending ... Virginia: The Importance Of Taking Frontenac
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Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays: The First, Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British ... A Description of the Face of the Country
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