Davis, John (3)
Davis, John
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Northumberland County, Va., Oct. 30, 1787, was converted at 19, entered the itinerancy of the Baltimore Conference in 1810, and died in Hillsborough, Va., Aug. 13, 1853. Mr. Davis was a very important and useful minister for more than forty years. As soon as he was converted he began to exhort and preach publicly, and with great effect, even before he had become a member of the Church, and on a circuit in 1818 about one thousand souls were converted by his preaching. In person he was commanding, and his voice was excellent. His mind was well balanced and robust, and his social qualities fine. As a minister and presiding elder he had few equals, and he was always a leader in the councils of the Church. He was an able agent and trustee of Dickinson College, and a member of every General Conference, save two, from 1816 to the time of his death. Minutes of Conferences, v. 329.
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Davis, John (1)
a Baptist minister, was born at Pennypack, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1721. He was licensed to preach in 1756; the same year became pastor at Winter Run, Harford County, Maryland, where he remained until his death in 1809. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:69.
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Davis, John (2)
a Baptist minister, was born in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1737. He graduated at Philadelphia College in 1763; was licensed to preach in 1769; in 1770 was called to the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church of Boston, and died December 13, 1772. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:117.
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Davis, John (3)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Dursley, Gloucestershire, October 27, 1780. He joined the Methodist Society at the age of seventeen, entered the ministry in 1802, became a supernumerary in 1845, and died May 16, 1852. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1852.