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Davies, Samuel (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. He went with Gilbert Tennent to England and Scotland in 1753 to raise funds for the support of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.) and was its president from 1759 to 1761.
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1752Miscellaneous Poems, Chiefly on Divine Subjects. Previously published in the Virginia Gazette, Davies's slight and sentimental verses are chiefly noteworthy for being some of the first poems published in Virginia.
1758"The Curse of Cowardice." The Virginia minister uses his pulpit to recruit militiamen from Virginia during the French and Indian War. Usually the Great Awakening sentiment is associated with New England; here Davies's revival skills show that it is far more geographically extensive.

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"Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state."

 
 

 

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