"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).