https://lost-creek.org/genealogy/histories/evans-family.php

https://nativeamericanroots.wordpress.com/?s=Gibson

The Native American, free colored, Evans family of Granville County directly descend from Morris Evans and Jane Gibson of Charles City County, VA. The Evans family resettled in and became a core part of Granville County's Native American community in the 1760s immediately following the initial settlement of the founding Chavis, Harris, Hawley, Pettiford, Anderson, Bass, and Goins families. In this blog post I will document the Evans family from their earliest documented origins from a free Indian woman known as Jane Gibson the elder, to their settlement in Granville County. A word of caution: Evans is among the most common surnames dating back to colonial times, therefore not all Evans families are genealogically related. There were a few free colored Evans families originating in Virginia and it is not known if and how they may all be related. The focus of this blog post is about documenting the branch of the Evans family that begins with Morris Evans and his wife Jane Gibson. I do discuss two additional Evans families at the end, that may or may not be related.

Court records seem to indicate that the first Jane Gibson was born ca 1640 and that her daughter, Jane Jr., was born ca 1660. Jane Gibson Jr. was married to Morris Evans, and judging by the ages indicated in these records, it is apparent that this would have been the Morris Evans whose age I estimate as born ca 1665, and who left a will & estate in 1739 York County, Virginia. From these petitions and the estate records for Morris Evans, it appears that he and Jane may have been separated by the time of his death, since there is no mention of Jane, but his 2 sons, Charles & Morris were listed among the heirs, along with Rebecca Hulet, listed as "friend", and her daughter, Elizabeth. Jane Gibson-Evans was called a "widow" in these petitions, but it would not have been unusual for her to have actually been separated or divorced and for it not to have been public knowledge at the time.

Children of Charles Evans and Sarah
Thomas Evans - tithable in his father's 1751 Lunenburg Co household. Was in very poor economic standing as his children were bound out because he could not provide for them. Thomas only received one shilling from his father's will because he was undutiful. His wife may have been a Stewart. Some of his children intermarried with the free colored/Native American Jeffries family and moved to Orange Co, NC. This is the same Jeffries family that is a core family of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.

Charles Evans - remained in southside Virginia. In 1782, he was compensated for beef he provided to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was head of a Mecklenburg County, Virginia household of 6 persons in 1782 and was taxable in Mecklenburg County from 1782 to 1794: taxable on slave named Ned, and taxable on slave Jack in 1786. His daughter Nanny Evans married Eaton Walden. Eaton and Nanny migrated to Owen County, Indiana in the 1830's, and headed a household of 5 in Owen County, in 1840. Eaton and Nanny were the proginators of about half of the Walden pioneers who settled in the Lost Creek Settlement area.

Richard Evans - remained in southside Virginia. He did not leave a will, so his apparent children are not verified. He may be the father of Richard Evans b. 1772 who relocated to Chatham Co, NC. An earlier Isaac Evans was the first free colored Evans to appear in the Randolph Co records, so some of the apparent descendants of Richard Evans may in fact be the descendants of Isaac Evans. And it is not currently known if and how Isaac Evans may be related to the family of Morris Evans/Jane Gibson.