Peter Evans

Peter Evans (1725-1771) was a Baptist minister at Yeovil from 1753 until 1771. He was the nephew of Hugh Evans of Bristol (1712-81), pastor at Broadmead and President of Bristol Baptist Academy, 1758-81, and father to Caleb Evans. The church at Yeovil had between forty and fifty members at this time. As the letter reveals, Peter Evans died while Mary Steele was visiting at Yeovil; she attended the funeral. See Yeovil Baptist Church: Celebration of the 250th Anniversary (Yeovil, 1938); Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers trained at Bristol Academy, 1690–1791 (London: Baptist Historical Society, for Roger Hayden, 2006), 233.