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The Maclean House at Princeton, New Jersey has been home to many Princeton Presidents, including Samuel Finley. Shown also in this picture are the two sycamore trees known as the “Stamp Act” or “liberty” trees, said to have been planted by Finley in 1766.

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Samuel Finely is buried at Abington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Abington, Pennsylvania.

Originally buried in Philadelphia, the body of Samuel Finely was later laid to rest at Abington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Abington, Pennsylvania.

Christ Triumphing, and Satan Raging (1741)

Satan Stripp'd of His Angelic Robe: Being an Abridgment of the Substance of Several Sermons (1743)

Clear Light Put in Obscure Darkness: Being an Examination and Refutation of Mr. Thompson's Sermon, Entituled, The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light (1743)

A Charitable Plea For the Speechless: or, the Right of Believers-Infants to Baptism Vindicated: And the Mode of It By Pouring or Sprinkling Justified (1746)

A Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless: In Answer to Mr. Abel Morgan's Antipaedorantism. Wherein the Points in Controversy are More Largely Opened, and His Objections Particularly Considered, and Refuted. The Whole is Freely Submitted to the Judgment of Common Sense (1748)

The Approved Minister of God: A Sermon Preach'd at the Ordination of the Reverend John Rodgers (1749)

Faithful Ministers The Fathers Of The Church: A Sermon Preached At Fogs-Mannor on Occasion of the Death of the Reverend Mr Samuel Blair, Who Departed This Life July 5. 1752 (1752)

The New American Latin Grammar (1752, 1807)

Preface to Samuel Davies, A Sermon, Preached Before the Reverend Presbytery of New-Castle, October 11, 1752 (1752)

The Madness of Mankind (1754, 1855)

The Curse of Meroz (1757)

The Detection Detected: or, a Vindication of the Revd Mr. Delay and New-Castle Presbytery, From the Charges of Injurious Reasonings, and False Representations Against Them by the Rev. Messieurs Gellatly and Arnot (1757)

A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Mr. Samuel Davies (1761, 1864)

The Successful Minister of Christ Distinguished in Glory: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of the Late Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent, Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Congregation, in Philadelphia (1764)

An Account of the College of New-Jersey (1764)

June 3, 1765 Letter to Eleazar Wheelock (1765)

The Life of Dr. Samuel Finley (1805)

Memoir of Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D. (1845)

Samuel Finley (1857)

Samuel Finley, D.D. (1858)

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This work has been attributed both to Samuel Finley and to Samuel Blair, Jr.

Source: Dartmouth College. See letter w/transcript here: https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/diplomatic/765353-diplomatic.html

Source: Dartmouth College. See letter w/transcript here: https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/diplomatic/765353-diplomatic.html