Captain John Evans

- 1724

• Name	John Evans
  Title	Captain
  Gender	Male
  Military service	1694	Moodna Creek, Orange, New York, USA   [1]
  	Captain of HMS Richmond, stationed on the Hudson.
  Property	1 Mar 1693/94	Orange, New York, USA   [1, 2]
  	Granted a tract of 650,000 acres by Gov. Fletcher, undeveloped other than the Toscheoch and McGregorie output at Moodna Creek. Date of petition
  	This was land (18 miles on the Hudson x 30 miles inland) purchased from the Lenape by Governor Dongan in 1684. Goveronor Fletcher was later accused of making excessive land grants for political purposes.
  Military service	29 Sep 1696	New York, New York, USA   [3]
  	Commissioned by the Council of New York to capture a French man of war at anchor off Rockaway, Long Island
  Departure	1699	New York, New York, USA
  	Recalled to England to face accusations of conspiring with pirates, and Fletcher with corrupt use of land grants
  Property	1699	New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA
  	Lost his lands in New Windsor as a consequence of a New York law that annulled all of Goveroner Fletcher's land grants.
  Military service	1705	Bermuda
  	Captain of a privateer, the Dolphin
  Property	4 Sep 1711	London, England
  	Petitioned for the restoration of his Orange County land grant
  Death	1724	Grand Cayman
  	Possibly... killed by his boatswain
  Person ID	I45832	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family	Catherine McGregorie,   b. Abt 1676, Perthshire, Scotland
  Marriage	10 Sep 1694	Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
  	Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church. See https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/20996786 Dutch Reformed Church
  Family ID	F31553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Property - Granted a tract of 650,000 acres by Gov. Fletcher, undeveloped other than the Toscheoch and McGregorie output at Moodna Creek. Date of petition - 1 Mar 1693/94 - Orange, New York, USA Marriage - 10 Sep 1694 - Manhattan, New York, New York, USA Military service - Commissioned by the Council of New York to capture a French man of war at anchor off Rockaway, Long Island - 29 Sep 1696 - New York, New York, USA Departure - Recalled to England to face accusations of conspiring with pirates, and Fletcher with corrupt use of land grants - 1699 - New York, New York, USA Property - Lost his lands in New Windsor as a consequence of a New York law that annulled all of Goveroner Fletcher's land grants. - 1699 - New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA Property - Petitioned for the restoration of his Orange County land grant - 4 Sep 1711 - London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3705] Skeel, Adelaide, Major Patrick MacGregorie, p61. [S3787] New York State Library, Calendar of Council Minutes 1668-1783, Vol. 2, p239. [S3787] New York State Library, Calendar of Council Minutes 1668-1783, p254.