Rev. John S. Evans was the colleague sent to assist Rev. Thomas Cosford at Seneca and was a youth not quite a year out from the old country, yet one who had experience as a preacher, and was able in the pulpit. He was perhaps twenty-four years of age, and had labored on a circuit two or three years in Ireland, in connection with the Primitive Wesleyans, otherwise known as "Clonites."

He was tall and graceful in person, genteel and pleasing in manners, well-educated, thoughtful, if not studious, very intellectual, with a tendency to a metaphysical sort of reasoning. He was pious and amiable among the people, but it took him several years' experience in Canada, besides his old country experiment, to convince himself that he was called to preach. He was, however, the only one who doubted his ability and duty to preach the gospel.

...from the minutes of the 1847 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.