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Samuel Davies (November 3, 1723 – February 4, 1761) was an evangelist and Presbyterian minister. Davies ministered in Hanover County from 1748 to 1759, followed by a term as the fourth President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey, from 1759 to 1761.
Dec 22, 2021 · Samuel Davies was an evangelical Presbyterian pastor and educator who lived and worked in Hanover County from 1748 to 1759. He played a critical role in the early years of the Great Awakening, the series of religious revivals that would eventually lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England as America’s official church.
Samuel Davies (born November 3, 1723, New Castle county, Delaware—died February 4, 1761, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Presbyterian preacher in the American colonies who defended religious dissent and helped lead the Southern phase of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening.
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Nov 3, 2017 · THE SOUTH'S GREAT AWAKENER. BY GEORGE H. BOST. In the second quarter of the eighteenth century a religious spread through the American colonies so effectively that it became known as the Great Awakening. The leader of the Great Awakening. in the South was Samuel Davies, a young Presbyterian minister. In.
Samuel Davies, Princeton’s fourth president (1759-61), was a pioneering Presbyterian minister on Virginia’s western frontier and one of the earliest missionaries to enslaved people in the British colonies.
At the time of its publication, this biography of Samuel Davies by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union was the first and only such study of his life. It is included here, though not written by Davies, for its historical value.
Samuel Davies (dā´vēz), 1723–61, American Presbyterian clergyman, b. New Castle co., Del. Ordained as an evangelist, he went in 1747 to Hanover co., Va., where he was soon the center of a revival that became part of the movement known as the Great Awakening.
