John Bevan

Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

John Bevan, or ap Evan, son and heir of "Ieuan ap John, of Treverigg (in Llantrisant), Glamorgan," Wales[1][2] and his wife Jane Richards, was born about 1646[3] in Treverigg.[4] John married Barbara Aubrey (born about 1637), "daughter of William Aubrey of Pencoed, Glamorgan, Wales, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Thomas".[1] A testimonial, preserved in the records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and including a memorandum by John himself, gives the marriage year as 1665.[3][5][6]

Children

1. Jane Bevan, married John Wood[1]
2. Evan Bevan,[1] married Eleanor Wood[7]
3. Ann Bevan, married Owen Roberts[1][8]
4. Elizabeth Bevan, married Joseph Richardson[1][9]
5. Barbara Bevan[1]

Additional Children[10]

1. Ann (born/died 1666)
2. Katherine (1675-1683)

   ---

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5RQ-3G3/john-bevans-1646-1725

b 1646 Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales, d 1710 Llantrisant, Glamorganshire Wales, after leaving PA and returning to his Welsh estate in 1710 with wife & one daughter who also died there; m Barbara AUBREY. "John Bevan was the eldest son of Evan ap John, of Treverigg, born in the parish of Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales. In some deeds for Pennsylvania he is described as John ap Evans, of Treverigg, in others as John Bevan. Judge John Bevan was a noted preacher of the Society of Friends, who abandoned his position of wealth and honor in Wales, to accompany his esteemed friend, William Penn, to America. He married Barbara Catharine Aubery, who was born in 1637, and died in 1710. Their daughter Elizabeth, married Joseph Richardson in 1696." (Pugh/Frazier family) QUAKER

In the book "Merion In the Welsh Tract", by Thomas Allen Glenn, there is 24 pages dedicated to the Bevan family ....Page 154, "John Bevan (otherwise called John ap Evan, John ab Evan and John B'evan), who came from his paternal estate of Treverigg, in Glamorganshire, in the year 1683 ...... and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania." In the 24 pages it gives his lineage dating back to about 1030 to early 1800s.

John and Barbara (Aubrey) Bevan, of Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, are both descended from Edward III., of England, and his wife Philippa, daughter of William III, Count of Hainault and Holland, by his wife Joanna, daughter of Charles of Valois, son of King Philip of France. The ancestry of John Bevan has been traced back twelve generations further to Dierck, Count of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, A. D. 863, (a descendant of the Dukes of Aquitaine), who married Gena, daughter of the King of Italy; his son, Dierck II, who married Hildegarde, daughter of King Louis of France, and died May 6, 988; his son Arnulph, who married Luitgarde, daughter of Theophanus, King of Greece, and sister of Theophana, wife of Otho II, Emperor of Germany, killed at ba

ttle of Wentzel, 993; his son, Dierck III, who married Othilda, daughter of the Duke of Saxony, and was one of the early crusaders, died 1039; his son, Floris I, who became Count of Holland, etc., in 1048, married Gertrude, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony; his son, Dierck V, who became Count in 1075, married Othilda, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Saxony; his son Dierck VI, who married Sophia, daughter of the Count Palatine, a crusader of 1139, died 1163; his son, Floris III, a crusader in 1187, with 9000 men, and performed many feats of arms, died at Antioch, 1191, and was buried at St. Peter's Church there; married Ada, daughter of King Henry, and granddaughter of David VIII, of Scotland; their son, William I, who accompanied his father to the Holy Land, and remained three years after the death of his father and captured Damiaten, in Egypt, for which he was knighted by Frederick Barbarossa; was again a crusader in 1217, died February 4, 1224; he married Adelheit, daughter of the Count of Gelderland, and their son was Floris IV, slain in battle, 1235, married Matilda, daughter of Henry, Duke of Brabant, and their daughter Alice, married, in 1241, John of Avennes, Earl of Hainault, whose son William III, of the Netherlands, married Joanna, of Valois, and was the father of Philippa, wife of Edward III, of England.

JOHN BEVAN, eldest son of Evan ap John, born on the ancestral estate of Treverigg, parish of Llantrisant, county of Glamorganshire, in the year 1646, inherited the estate of Treverigg at the death of his father about 1665, and on coming of age made liberal provision for his brothers and sisters who were unprovided for. He became a member of the Society of Friends and was for many years an esteemed minister of that sect, travelling extensively on that service. He became interested in founding a colony of Welsh Quakers in Pennsylvania, and as agent for a company of them purchased 2,000 acres of William Penn, a part of which was surveyed in Haverford township, Chester county, and about 300 acres in Merion, Philadelphia county. He also purchased a tract of land for his brother, Charles Bevan, and made several purchases in his own name. On the 10th of the 7th month (September) 1683, a certificate was granted by the Friends Meeting at Treverigg for John Bevan, his wife Barbara, and their children, to remove to Pennsylvania. They were accompanied by Ralph Lewis and a number of other Welsh Quakers who settled near them. His land was laid out in different parts of Philadelphia and Chester counties, and he settled on a tract of 300 acres in Merion, including the present site of Wynnewood station on the Pennsylvania railroad, and adjoining the line of Haverford township, Chester county. He early became interested in the affairs of his adopted country and was commissioned a Justice of Philadelphia county, November 6, 1685, and was re-commissioned November 2, 1689. He was returned as a member of Colonial Assembly in 1687-95-99-1700, and probably served continuedly in that body from 1687. As before stated, he was a minister among Friends and travelled extensively in the ministry, making several visits to his native land and to New England and other parts of the Colonies. In 1694 he visited Wales, his return to Pennsylvania being noted in a letter written by Rees Thomas to his father-in-law in Wales, under date of "ye 29th day of Ye 3d. Mo. 1695," which says, "My unkle John Bevan came over very well and had a good voyage, he told me he had seen thee twice, etc." He again crossed in 1698, and travelled through New England in 1701. In 1704, as given in a "Journal", under his own hand several years later, he experienced "a weighty concerne to return to my native country and that chiefly on Truth's account. I laid

it before my wife and she could not be easy to stay behind me and we came over in the year 1704."

They were accompanied by their youngest daughter, Barbara, their only child remaining unmarried, and she died in Wales, soon after their arrival there. They landed at Shields, Northumberland, and after attending meeting there, set forward for their old home in Glamorganshire, Wales, a distance of near three hundred miles, visiting a number of Meetings by the way, and the journal continues, "about the beginning of the eighth month 1704, we came to our home at Treveyricke". He died at Treverigg, aged eighty years, his will bearing date March, 1724-5, being probated October 21, 1726. The will mentions the 300 acre plantation in Merion as having been given to his son, Evan Bevan, prior to his decease. Another plantation in Merion, he devises to his daughter-in-law, Eleanor Bevan, for life, then to go to his grandchildren: Evan, Aubrey and Charles Bevan. John Bevan married, 1665, Barbara, daughter of William Aubrey, of Pencoyd, sometime Sheriff of Glamorganshire, who also traces back to Edward III, King of England.

~• from yet another source:

Sir John was assigned 2,000 acres to sell. He
himself lived in this country for twenty years and
came to own a large acreage of ground. He was prominent in the affairs of the Welsh Tract, and the
Province, having been a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1687, 169'3, and 1700; a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of Philadelphia in 1685 and in Chester
County in 1689. Sir John Bevan's plantation of '300
acres was located south of the present Wynnewood Station extending to Haverford Road on the south, and on
the east to City Line.
He purchased it from Thomas Wynne on May 12,
1684. The homestead was South of Lancaster Avenue
and the Bevan family occupied it for over 100 years.
He returned to Wales in 1704, and died in his
old home at "Treverigg" in the 80th year of his life
in 1725.

persecution

After his return to Wales he was prosecuted by
the Vicar of the Parish for dues to the Established
Church, and was confined to Cardiff Jail in 1721,
but his lawyer found an error in the writ, and he
was discharged at the following session of the Court,
and ever after ·lived unmolested. It was written of
him: 11 He was endowed with a good understanding in
things spiritual and temporal, discreet and prudent
in his way, of an unspotted life and conversation,
grave and solid in his deportment, and careful to
keep concord and unity among friends, constant and
unmovable against that which would divide and rend,
yet laboring to restore those that were beguiled
thereby. In his last sickness he had no small conflict, but he was favored with much patience and possessed his soul therein, and bore his indisposition
to admiration. At one time, he said: 'Ever since I
had the knowledge of the truth, I have endeavored to
be innocent' . To a relation asking how he did, he
answered: 'Weakly, but I find some strength to bear
my weakness'"·
Sir John Bevan was descended from the Kings of
Britain, Wales and Ireland. He had eight ancestors
who signed the Magna Charta. They are: John Fitz
Robert, Robert DeVere, Saiaer de Quincy, Hugh Bigod,
Roger Bigod, Richard De Clair, Gilbert De Clare, and
Henry De Bohun.

https://highlanderjuan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Isaac-C-Sutto...

References

1. “The Thomas Family, as Descended from David and Anna Noble Thomas” . William Thomas Lyle (1908). Page 16. GoogleBooks
2. https://highlanderjuan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Isaac-C-Sutto... page 68
3. (more) http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fishers-a...
4. WikiTree contributors, "John Bevan (abt.1646-1726)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bevan-62 : accessed 20 January 2024).

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bevan-62

John was a Friend (Quaker)

John Bevan, or ap Evan, son and heir of "Ieuan ap John, of Treverigg (in Llantrisant), Glamorgan," Wales[1][2] and his wife Jane Richards, was born about 1646[3] in Treverigg.[4] John married Barbara Aubrey (born about 1637), "daughter of William Aubrey of Pencoed, Glamorgan, Wales, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Thomas".[1] A testimonial, preserved in the records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and including a memorandum by John himself, gives the marriage year as 1665.[3][5][6]

Children

• Jane Bevan, married John Wood[1]
• Evan Bevan,[1] married Eleanor Wood[7]
• Ann Bevan, married Owen Roberts[1][8]
• Elizabeth Bevan, married Joseph Richardson[1][9]
• Barbara Bevan[1]

Additional Children[10]

Ann (born/died 1666)
Katherine (1675-1683)

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5RQ-3G3/john-bevans-1646-1725

b 1646 Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales, d 1710 Llantrisant, Glamorganshire Wales, after leaving PA and returning to his Welsh estate in 1710 with wife & one daughter who also died there; m Barbara AUBREY. "John Bevan was the eldest son of Evan ap John, of Treverigg, born in the parish of Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales. In some deeds for Pennsylvania he is described as John ap Evans, of Treverigg, in others as John Bevan. Judge John Bevan was a noted preacher of the Society of Friends, who abandoned his position of wealth and honor in Wales, to accompany his esteemed friend, William Penn, to America. He married Barbara Catharine Aubery, who was born in 1637, and died in 1710. Their daughter Elizabeth, married Joseph Richardson in 1696." (Pugh/Frazier family) QUAKER

In the book "Merion In the Welsh Tract", by Thomas Allen Glenn, there is 24 pages dedicated to the Bevan family ....Page 154, "John Bevan (otherwise called John ap Evan, John ab Evan and John B'evan), who came from his paternal estate of Treverigg, in Glamorganshire, in the year 1683 ...... and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania." In the 24 pages it gives his lineage dating back to about 1030 to early 1800s.

John and Barbara (Aubrey) Bevan, of Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, are both descended from Edward III., of England, and his wife Philippa, daughter of William III, Count of Hainault and Holland, by his wife Joanna, daughter of Charles of Valois, son of King Philip of France. The ancestry of John Bevan has been traced back twelve generations further to Dierck, Count of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, A. D. 863, (a descendant of the Dukes of Aquitaine), who married Gena, daughter of the King of Italy; his son, Dierck II, who married Hildegarde, daughter of King Louis of France, and died May 6, 988; his son Arnulph, who married Luitgarde, daughter of Theophanus, King of Greece, and sister of Theophana, wife of Otho II, Emperor of Germany, killed at ba

ttle of Wentzel, 993; his son, Dierck III, who married Othilda, daughter of the Duke of Saxony, and was one of the early crusaders, died 1039; his son, Floris I, who became Count of Holland, etc., in 1048, married Gertrude, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony; his son, Dierck V, who became Count in 1075, married Othilda, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Saxony; his son Dierck VI, who married Sophia, daughter of the Count Palatine, a crusader of 1139, died 1163; his son, Floris III, a crusader in 1187, with 9000 men, and performed many feats of arms, died at Antioch, 1191, and was buried at St. Peter's Church there; married Ada, daughter of King Henry, and granddaughter of David VIII, of Scotland; their son, William I, who accompanied his father to the Holy Land, and remained three years after the death of his father and captured Damiaten, in Egypt, for which he was knighted by Frederick Barbarossa; was again a crusader in 1217, died February 4, 1224; he married Adelheit, daughter of the Count of Gelderland, and their son was Floris IV, slain in battle, 1235, married Matilda, daughter of Henry, Duke of Brabant, and their daughter Alice, married, in 1241, John of Avennes, Earl of Hainault, whose son William III, of the Netherlands, married Joanna, of Valois, and was the father of Philippa, wife of Edward III, of England.

JOHN BEVAN, eldest son of Evan ap John, born on the ancestral estate of Treverigg, parish of Llantrisant, county of Glamorganshire, in the year 1646, inherited the estate of Treverigg at the death of his father about 1665, and on coming of age made liberal provision for his brothers and sisters who were unprovided for. He became a member of the Society of Friends and was for many years an esteemed minister of that sect, travelling extensively on that service. He became interested in founding a colony of Welsh Quakers in Pennsylvania, and as agent for a company of them purchased 2,000 acres of William Penn, a part of which was surveyed in Haverford township, Chester county, and about 300 acres in Merion, Philadelphia county. He also purchased a tract of land for his brother, Charles Bevan, and made several purchases in his own name. On the 10th of the 7th month (September) 1683, a certificate was granted by the Friends Meeting at Treverigg for John Bevan, his wife Barbara, and their children, to remove to Pennsylvania. They were accompanied by Ralph Lewis and a number of other Welsh Quakers who settled near them. His land was laid out in different parts of Philadelphia and Chester counties, and he settled on a tract of 300 acres in Merion, including the present site of Wynnewood station on the Pennsylvania railroad, and adjoining the line of Haverford township, Chester county. He early became interested in the affairs of his adopted country and was commissioned a Justice of Philadelphia county, November 6, 1685, and was re-commissioned November 2, 1689. He was returned as a member of Colonial Assembly in 1687-95-99-1700, and probably served continuedly in that body from 1687. As before stated, he was a minister among Friends and travelled extensively in the ministry, making several visits to his native land and to New England and other parts of the Colonies. In 1694 he visited Wales, his return to Pennsylvania being noted in a letter written by Rees Thomas to his father-in-law in Wales, under date of "ye 29th day of Ye 3d. Mo. 1695," which says, "My unkle John Bevan came over very well and had a good voyage, he told me he had seen thee twice, etc." He again crossed in 1698, and travelled through New England in 1701. In 1704, as given in a "Journal", under his own hand several years later, he experienced "a weighty concerne to return to my native country and that chiefly on Truth's account. I laid

it before my wife and she could not be easy to stay behind me and we came over in the year 1704."

They were accompanied by their youngest daughter, Barbara, their only child remaining unmarried, and she died in Wales, soon after their arrival there. They landed at Shields, Northumberland, and after attending meeting there, set forward for their old home in Glamorganshire, Wales, a distance of near three hundred miles, visiting a number of Meetings by the way, and the journal continues, "about the beginning of the eighth month 1704, we came to our home at Treveyricke". He died at Treverigg, aged eighty years, his will bearing date March, 1724-5, being probated October 21, 1726. The will mentions the 300 acre plantation in Merion as having been given to his son, Evan Bevan, prior to his decease. Another plantation in Merion, he devises to his daughter-in-law, Eleanor Bevan, for life, then to go to his grandchildren: Evan, Aubrey and Charles Bevan. John Bevan married, 1665, Barbara, daughter of William Aubrey, of Pencoyd, sometime Sheriff of Glamorganshire, who also traces back to Edward III, King of England.

~• from yet another source:

Sir John was assigned 2,000 acres to sell. He
himself lived in this country for twenty years and
came to own a large acreage of ground. He was prominent in the affairs of the Welsh Tract, and the
Province, having been a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1687, 169'3, and 1700; a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of Philadelphia in 1685 and in Chester
County in 1689. Sir John Bevan's plantation of '300
acres was located south of the present Wynnewood Station extending to Haverford Road on the south, and on
the east to City Line.
He purchased it from Thomas Wynne on May 12,
1684. The homestead was South of Lancaster Avenue
and the Bevan family occupied it for over 100 years.
He returned to Wales in 1704, and died in his
old home at "Treverigg" in the 80th year of his life
in 1725.

persecution

After his return to Wales he was prosecuted by
the Vicar of the Parish for dues to the Established
Church, and was confined to Cardiff Jail in 1721,
but his lawyer found an error in the writ, and he
was discharged at the following session of the Court,
and ever after ·lived unmolested. It was written of
him: 11 He was endowed with a good understanding in
things spiritual and temporal, discreet and prudent
in his way, of an unspotted life and conversation,
grave and solid in his deportment, and careful to
keep concord and unity among friends, constant and
unmovable against that which would divide and rend,
yet laboring to restore those that were beguiled
thereby. In his last sickness he had no small conflict, but he was favored with much patience and possessed his soul therein, and bore his indisposition
to admiration. At one time, he said: 'Ever since I
had the knowledge of the truth, I have endeavored to
be innocent' . To a relation asking how he did, he
answered: 'Weakly, but I find some strength to bear
my weakness'"·
Sir John Bevan was descended from the Kings of
Britain, Wales and Ireland. He had eight ancestors
who signed the Magna Charta. They are: John Fitz
Robert, Robert DeVere, Saiaer de Quincy, Hugh Bigod,
Roger Bigod, Richard De Clair, Gilbert De Clare, and
Henry De Bohun.

https://highlanderjuan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Isaac-C-Sutto...

References

1. “The Thomas Family, as Descended from David and Anna Noble Thomas” . William Thomas Lyle (1908). Page 16. GoogleBooks
2. https://highlanderjuan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Isaac-C-Sutto... page 68
3. (more) http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fishers-a...
4. WikiTree contributors, "John Bevan (abt.1646-1726)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bevan-62 : accessed 20 January 2024).