"Mr. Davies, besides occupying seven different places for preaching, and taking frequent journeys to attend the judicatories of the Church, made many missionary excursions in the parts of the country now forming the counties of Cumberland, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Campbell, Nottoway, and Amelia. . . . These services were often attended with a special blessing; and each successive tour that he made, brought some new requests for Presbyterian preaching." (From the Memoir of President Davies in Sermons of the Rev. Samuel Davies, volume 1).

"The staple of his preaching was in the highest degree evangelical--he seemed always to dwell within sight of the cross; and every discourse was redolent at once of tenderness and sublimity." (From the Memoir of President Davies in Sermons of the Rev. Samuel Davies).