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There is no documentary data pertaining to the marriage of Peter Shaver and Margaretha Schaeffer obtainable, but a presumptuous statement infers that the marriage was consummated in Philadelphia prior to establishing their settlement in Bucks County, later in Cumberland County and still later in Huntingdon County. In 1752 a son was born and in 1753 he was baptized as Peter Shaver, a junior. Another son was named John.

In 1754 history records him as having made improvements upon his land located, by historians, at the mouth of Shaver's Creek, in Huntingdon County. In 1744 he, with Andrew Montour, Hugh Crawforn and Thomas Simpson, appointed by Governor Hamilton, of the province, as a committee, met in December at Augwick, Huntingdon County, and held a hearing on a protest against George Grogan, also an Indian Trader, accused of promiscuously dispensing liquor to the Indians.

Professor J. Simpson Africa in his "History of Huntingdon county" records our original pioneer ancestor, Peter Shaver, as one of the earliest settlers in Logan Township, Huntingdon County, and Lewis Clark Wilkinshaw, in his fourth volume of "Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania" substantiates the record of Professor Africa, and says that “the earliest permanent settlement effected within the limits of Huntingdon County, was at Standing Stone(now Huntingdon Borough)” and that “in 1754 Peter Shaver commenced a settlement at the mouth of Shaver's Creek, which bears his name.

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