Evans, Stokes, and Waln Families Conscientious Objections, 1780-1904

Note: a letter from Alison Stokes MacLean to Stokes and Evans family. Potomac, MD, 1976 describes finding the Francis J. Stokes family letters and photographs in a tin box and having them transcribed and typed

Typed and transcribed letters and documents: I. Letters

• Evans, Jonathan to Francis Stokes (cousin). 1868 8/21.
• Evans, Thomas, 1830s-1860s. 8 letters.
• Evans, William (loyalist in the Revolutionary War). Antigua, W. I., 1780 6/4. [account of encounter between English and French fleets]
• Stokes, Francis to Katherine Evans Stokes. 1902-1904 & undated 3 items.
• Stokes, Joseph to Francis Stokes. 1862 3/12 & 3/15.
• Waln, Nicholas. Philadelphia, 1791 9/24. [opinion concerning will of Joseph Stokes]

• Commissioner to Francis Stokes. Philadelphia, 1862 9/15. [informing him of his exemption from military service and obligation to pay a sum as "an equivalent"]
• Society of Friends in PA, NJ and DE to U.S. Congress. 1863 2/24. [on right to refuse payment in lieu of military service]
• Evans, Thomas to Isaac Newton. 1863 9/16. [Friends' refusal to bear arms]
• Society of Friends in PA, NJ and DE to President of U.S. and Secretary of War. 1863 7/23. [regarding treatment of Quakers in Southern army captured at Gettysburg]
• Hinshaw, Thomas, Jacob Hinshaw, Nathan Barker and Cyrus Barker to Officers of the 52nd N. C. Regiment. [petition for release from fighting or for paying equivalent tax]
• Evans, Thomas to Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War). 1863 8/24. [on behalf of Quakers captured at Gettysbury]
• Evans, Thomas to Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War). 1863 9/20.[on behalf of Nathan Blackburn, Quaker from Brownsville, PA]
• Stanton, E.M. to Thomas Evans. 1863 10/13. [reports discharge of Nathan Blackburn]
• Evans, Thomas to Pres. Lincoln. N.d. [re discharge of Quakers captured at Gettysburg]
• Evans, Thomas to E.M. Stanton. 1864 1/23. [re discharge of Charles B. Clayton]