D. D Da Vies Samuel, an American divine, born in New Castle co., Del., Nov. 3,1724, died at Princeton, N. J., Feb. 4,1761. He received a careful religious education, studied the classics, sciences, and theology, and was licensed to preach in 1746. Ordained in the next year, he was appointed to officiate at different places of worship in Hanover co., Va. His labors were highly successful, and led to a controversy between him and the king's attorney general as to whether the act of toleration, passed in England for the relief of Protestant dissenters, extended also to Virginia. The ultimate decision was in the affirmative. In 1753 he was sent with Gilbert Tennent to England to solicit funds for the college of New Jersey; he was received with favor as a preacher in England and Scotland, and was successful in the object of his mission. He resumed his pastoral labors on his return, amid the excitement of the French and Indian war, and after the defeat of Braddock preached a sermon, which was published, in a note to which occurs the passage: " . . . . that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The first presbytery in Virginia was established through his exertions in 1755; and in 1759 he succeeded Jonathan Edwards as president of the college of New Jersey. A collection of his sermons was published in London in 1767 (5 vols.), and republished several times in England and America. An edition in 3 vols, was published in New York in 1851, with an essay on his life and times by the Rev. Albert Barnes.