Nicholas Shaver Jr. ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: Genealogy of Johannes Baer, 1749-1910, 1910.
Nicholas Shaver, Jr. came from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and purchased a farm May 24^th, 1785, near what is now Aughwick Mills, Shirley Township, where he lived the balance of his life. He died about 1810. His sons Peter and John, were appointed administrators of his estate in that year. He owned considerable property . His wife's name was Elizabeth. They had the following children: Peter, name of wife, Catherine; John (Major), married Mary Glass. Jacob, married, (live in Westmoreland County.) Leonard, lived in Mercer County, married Rachel Ricketts, daughter Hezekiah, Sr. Phebe, married Casper Booher. Catherin, married Joseph Cochenour. Susannah, married Peter Snyder. A daughter, name unknown, married a Ripple. Most all of whom lived in the vicinity of the old homestead.
At one time the Shavers (about 70 in number, counting children, and their relatives, through marriage with the families of Casper Booher, Peter Snyder, and Hezekiah Ricketts, Sr., owned one continous line of adjoining farms about five miles long, extending from the Juniata River at the bend where the Creosoting plant is located, up through Hill Valley, almost to where the Brewster Tannery stood.
The father of Nicholas Shaver, Jr. was Nicholas, Sr. It is said he came from Germany, when Nicholas, Jr. was a small boy, and settled in the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia, with the early settlers and had two sons and one daughter.

Nicholas married Elizabeth.