Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history on this episode. I'm on

location in Virginia and we're here to talk about the missionary or apostle to Virginia as he was

known Samuel Davies.

Samuel Davies was born on November the 3rd, 1723.

As a young man he was educated at Blair's Log College. This is Samuel Blair. This is in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Blair's Log College, it was modeled after the original Log College of the Tenants over in the Shamini, Pennsylvania,

that of course became Princeton University.

But this is Blair's Log College and when he was finished with his education he was ordained as a minister in

1747 at the age of 24 and the presbytery sent him to Hanover County Virginia.

George Whitfield had gone sent him to Hanover County, Virginia.

George Whitfield had gone through Hanover County in 1745,

and so they sent along Samuel Davies

to help some of those seeds that had been sown grow.

The 10 years that Samuel Davies was there from 1747 through the end of 1757, those years are known as the years of the Hanover

Revivals. It was during that time that Davies started seven churches and he

pastored those seven churches.

He taught many not only of the whites here in Virginia

but also African Americans.

Some slaves freed African Americans.

He taught Indians.

He wanted to establish a college, a log college

like he had been trained at,

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