Receiving his formal education at the Samuel Blair academy would have profound influence upon Davies’ life. At this time, the New Light Presbytery of New Brunswick broke away from the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia. This new presbytery would send William Robinson on a preaching tour in Campbell, Charlotte, and Prince Edward counties in Virginia. Newly formed groups of Presbyterian believers were meeting in those counties.

A group of Dissenters in Hanover County asked Robinson to come and preach. The Dissenters met in a AReading Room@ built by Samuel Morris, was the beginning for this group. Robinson was received well, and the dissenters attempted to give him a sum of money for his labors. Robinson refused the money, so it was secretly placed into one of his saddlebags, but he discovered it and returned it. The people continued to press him and Robinson offered an agreeable solution. The money would provide support to a promising young student who needed financial help. That young student was Samuel Davies, and Robinson took the money to provide for the young man’s education. Robinson stated the young man would finish his studies, and following his licensing to the ministry, he would become their preacher.

Under the guiding hand of God and the schooling of Samuel Blair, Davies progressed with his studies. During his time at Fagg=s Manor he would have the opportunity to hear George Whitefield preach in 1740. He finished his formal studies in 1746, and the New Castle Presbytery licensed him July 30, 1746. A year later in October the young pastor married, to Sarah Kirkpatrick and advanced quickly with his life.

Davies filled vacant pulpits in Pennsylvania and Delaware finishing his probationary period. He presented himself for ordination on February 19, 1747. Without a congregation of his own, the presbytery officially ordained him an evangelist. They sent him to Virginia to the congregations without pastors, especially the one in Hanover County.