Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haifi Evans a New Jersey, ba a san ranar da wurin haihuwar ba. An fara nada Evans a matsayin mai kula da jirgin ruwa a ranar 11 ga Mayu, 1798. Daga baya ya ci gaba zuwa matsayin laftanar, a ranar 25 ga Nuwamba, 1799 kuma zuwa ga shugaban kwamandan (shugaba) a ranar 24 ga Afrilu, 1806, ya sami matsayin kyaftin a ranar 4 ga Yuli, 1812. Yayinda yake a cikin jirgin ruwa, ya yi aiki a kan. Yayin da yake aiki a kan "Ganges" ya tashi daga Philadelphia 24 ga Mayu 1798, a karkashin jagorancin Kyaftin Richard Dale, kuma ya yi tafiya a bakin tekun Atlantika a farkon ɓangaren Quasi-War tare da Faransa (1798-1800). An umurci Evans a 1799 zuwa, wanda aka haɗe da tawagar Commodore Thomas Tingey a kan Guadaloupe Station. A cikin 1801 ya sake yin aiki tare da USS "George Washington" 2 ga Yuni 1801 ya sanar da cewa yana ɗaya daga cikin Lieutenants da aka zaɓa don a riƙe su a cikin Sojojin Ruwa a ƙarƙashin Dokar Ƙaddamar da Zaman Lafiya na Soja na 3 ga Maris 1801, inda ya shiga cikin ayyukan jiragen ruwa a kan 'yan fashin teku na Barbary, "George Washington" ya ba da kyauta ga Algiers a lokacin rani na 1801, kuma ya kasance a cikin Bahar Rum a kan aikin aiki na tsawon watanni a lokacin farkon yakin da Tripoli
(1801-1805), yana tafiya zuwa gida a farkon 1802. Ranar 27 ga watan Agustan 1802 an umurci Evans zuwa Washington DC kuma a ranar 6 ga watan Satumba 1802 zuwa ga. A watan Satumba na 1802 Evans ya sake tafiya zuwa Bahar Rum a cikin jirgin USS "John Adams" a karkashin jagorancin Kyaftin John Rodgers.