Samuel Davies

DAVIES, Samuel. b. New Castle, Delaware, 3 November 1723; d. Princeton, New Jersey, 4 February 1761. Born at the Welsh tract, Pencader Hundred, he was given money for his education by William Robinson, a Presbyterian minister of New Brunswick, and was educated at Fagg’s Manor, Pennsylvania, by one of the best teachers in the USA, Samuel Blair. He was licensed as a probationer by the Presbytery of New Castle in 1746, and became a very successful evangelist in Virginia in 1747, later settling in Hanover County. He prepared pupils for the Presbyterian College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) and became well known as a preacher and educator: he was awarded the MA degree by the College...

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