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Sources consulted for the biography of:Samuel Davies (1723–1761)
Primary Sources
- Birth, marriage, ordination, and death dates in Davies Family Bible Records, 1723–1943 Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
- Davies letters, diaries, and other manuscripts in:
- Rush Family Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia (on deposit with Historical Society of Pennsylvania), in Samuel Davies Papers, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Office of the President Records, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
- Samuel Davies Collection, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
- Other correspondence in:
- Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies, &c., Shewing the State of Religion in Virginia, Particularly among the Negroes (1757)
- William Henry Foote, Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, 1st ser. (1850), 157–307 (first quotation on 205)
- Literary Manuscripts, Dr. Williams's Library, London (second quotation in letter to Mr. Forset, L61/3/1)
- Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (third quotation in 14:269–270)
- William Dawson Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- George William Pilcher, ed., The Reverend Samuel Davies Abroad: The Diary of a Journey to England and Scotland, 1753–55 (1967)
- Richard Beale Davis, ed., Collected Poems of Samuel Davies, 1723–1761 (1968)
Published Sermons
- Davies, The Curse of Cowardice: A Sermon Preached to the Militia of Hanover County, in Virginia, at a General Muster, May 8, 1758 (1758), with fourth and fifth quotations on 13, 19
- Davies, Sermons on Important Subjects (several editions)
Secondary Sources
- George William Pilcher, Samuel Davies: Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia (1971)
- J. A. Leo Lemay, "The Rev. Samuel Davies' Essay Series: The Virginia Centinel, 1756–1757," in Lemay, ed., Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis (1977), 121–163
- Dan M. Hockman, "'Hellish and Malicious Incendiaries': Commissary William Dawson and Dissent in Colonial Virginia, 1743–1752," Anglican and Episcopal History 59 (1990): 150–180
- Jeffrey H. Richards, "Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111 (2003): 333–378
Obituaries
- Philadelphia Pennsylvania Gazette, February 12, 1761
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