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John Thomas Evans (April
1770 - may
1799) was a
Welsh explorer who produced an early map of the
Missouri River.
John Evans was born in
Waunfawr, near
Caernarfon. In the early
1790s there was an upsurge of interest in Wales in the story of
Madog having discovered America, and there were persistent rumours in
North America of the existence of a tribe of Welsh
Indians, identified with the
Mandan.
Iolo Morgannwg had originally intended to explore the Missouri to discover these Welsh Indians and John Evans was to have gone with him. However Iolo withdrew from the expedition and John Evans embarked for the
United States alone, arriving in
Baltimore in October
1792. In the spring of
1793 he made his way to
St. Louis in Spanish Louisiana, where he was imprisoned for a while on suspicion of being a spy.
In April
1795 he set off on an expedition with
Spanish backing to explore the Missouri and to try to discover a
route to the
Pacific Ocean from its headwaters. He found the Mandan in
1796, and spent the winter with them before returning to St. Louis in
1797. However he found no trace of Welsh speakers among them. He had travelled 1,800 miles up the Missouri from its confluence with the
Mississippi, and he produced a map showing the course of the river. This map, passed on by
Thomas Jefferson was later used by the
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Evans remained in the service of the Spanish authorities, but died in
New Orleans in May
1799.
Howard Kimberley's web site on Prince Madoc's discovery of America in 1170 gives a more complicated account of Evans (http://www.madoc1170.com/jevans.htm) as well as three additional references.
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