Davies, Samuel 1723-1761


Samuel Davies was President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey.

Born to Baptist parents in New Castle County, Delaware, Davies received his early education under the tutelage of Rev. Samuel Blair at the academy he conducted in Faggs Manor, Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was ordained a Presbyterian by the New Castle presbytery in 1747 and settled to preach in Hanover, Virginia, in 1748. He had as one of his parishioners Patrick Henry.

Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 3 - 1860 (By William Buell Sprague) - see page 140
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Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Davies, Formerly President of the College of New Jersey. 1832
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Biographia Evangelica, Volume 4 (1810) by Erasmus Middleton (See pages 341-350 for entry on Samuel Davies)
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Samuel Davies Biographical Sketch at Princeton University web site
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Samuel Davies: Apostle of Virginia, Part 1
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Samuel Davies: Apostle of Virginia, Part 2
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Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley, Volume 1 (1802)
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Sermons on important subjects ... To which are new added three occasional sermons, not included in the former editions. Memoirs and characters of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Tinley, Volume 2 (1802)
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Sermons on important subjects ... To which are new added three occasional sermons, not included in the former editions. Memoirs and characters of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Tinley, Volume 3 (1802)
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Substance of sermons (1851)
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