Old Briery Church

Samuel Davies was the pastor of Patrick Henry, and later President of Princeton University, before he died at age 37.

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Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about 1855 to designs of Robert Lewis Dabney.