Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Carver, Mahlon
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   MAHLON CARVER P.O. Carversville, was born in 
Philadelphia, September 25, 1823, and is a son of John and 
Elizabeth (Briggs) Carver.  John and Mary (Lane) Carver came 
from Hertfordshire, England, in 1682, with his brothers, 
William, Joseph and Jacob, and settled in Byberry, now 
Twenty-third ward of Philadelphia, and took up seven hundred 
acres of land along the Poquessing creek.  It included the 
site of the old homestead, which has remained in the family 
for six generations, having descended successively from 
father to son, all of whom were named John, until 1864.  The 
pioneer, John Carver, died in 1714.  He had four children:  
John was the second child, and married Isabel Weldon, by 
whom he had three children, of whom John, the eldest son, 
married Mary Buckman, of Wrightstown.  He had ten children, 
of whom John was the third child and first son.  He married 
Elizabeth Briggs, of Wrightstown, daughter of John and 
Letitia (Buckman) Briggs.  They had four children: John, 
married to Phebe A. Tomlinson, of Philadelphia; Mahlon, 
Esther and Eliza (Mrs. Richard Wilson).  All except John are 
residents of Bucks county.  Mahlon was reared in Byberry, 
where he resided until 1867.  In 1869 he removed to 
Carversville, where he has since resided.  He married 
Susanna G., daughter of Daniel and Catherine (George) 
Helwig, of Solebury.