first marriage there were seven children, four ot whom are known to be boys. The eldest was educated at Broad Oak, under the Rev. Philip Henry, father of the better known commentator, Matthew Henry. He was afterwards ordained, and is said to have become curate of Hammer smith London.
John Evans, the second son, was born Nov. II, 1676. If we may trust his MS. autobiography, written in 1716, he was his mother's favourite son, and was to go on for an University education when his father's second marriage, within a year of the death of his first wife, threw the children of the first marriage upon their own resources. John became a shipbuilder's apprentice and then a sailor, eventually becoming master mariner and captain in the Navy. He seems to have left the service after the year 1719.
Jonathan was christened on Feb. i5th, 1678.
Margaretta was born in 1680.
And Charity was christened Sept. 2nd, 1683. Charity died early in 1707, and was buried in Llandugwydd Churchyard on Jan. 15th.
There were two other children from the first marriage, one, and probably only one, of whom was a boy, for it is traditionally accepted that Theophilus was the fifth son of Charles Evans, and moreover John Evans, in his autobiography, refers, in addition to his eldest brother, to two, and only two, others by the first marriage, both of whom went out to the American plantations. John Evans adds the interesting fact that all the children were doing well.
Charles Evans' first wife died about 1688. Within a year of her deith he married a widow, who seems to have brought her own son and daughter with her to Penywenallt.
