The City of Havre de Grace’s brochure, “Structures Built Prior to War of 1812,” lists this property as having been owned by members of the Carver family as early as the 1798 Tax Assessment for Spesutia Lower Hundred (an old name for Havre de Grace). That tax inventory lists Henry Carver as the owner of Lot 196 on which there was a one-and-a-half story wood dwelling with a one-story brick kitchen, a piazza, a wood meat house, a wood stable, and a blacksmith shop. Henry Carver’s name carries over to the 1814 Tax List which recorded the structures of a one story half-wood/half-brick dwelling house, a brick blacksmith shop, and a wood stable. Henry Carver was born in 1761, worked as a blacksmith, and served as a Town Commissioner in 1814-1815, before dying in 1818.

The lot on which this current house was built was sold in 1825 by Henry Barnes (1792-1858), George Carver, and Eliza and Harriett Carver to William Sappington (1789-1849). Barnes and Sappington were both veterans of the War of 1812. Sappington sold the property in 1838 to Joseph C. Carver (1797-1860), who was a blacksmith (and may have been the son of Henry Carver). Joseph Carver sold the property after seven years to John H. Carver and his wife, Sarah Anne. However, they sold the property back to Joseph C. Carver that same year of 1845 with the stipulation that after his death the property would go to Mary M. Carver, his wife. The notation “J.C. Carver” appears in this location on the Herrick and Jennings 1858 Map of Harford County. Four years later Joseph C. Carver chose to sell it to Henry P. Carver and Joseph H. Carver in 1849. In 1864, the home of Joseph H. Carver, presumably this one, was robbed and the Town Commissioners offered a reward of $50 for the arrest and delivery of the named robber to the authorities (the result is not known).

Following a Circuit Court hearing in 1889 in a cause between Anna H. Carver and Stevenson A. Williams, Executors, against George R. Carver and others, the court-appointed Trustee sold this property to Joseph W. Chamberlaine. This sale marked the end of several decades of the Carver family’s ownership of this property.

Joseph Chamberlaine and his wife, A. May Chamberlaine, sold the property four years later (in 1893) to Jackson W. Maslin (1863-1943). Maslin was a banker who became a Director of the Havre de Grace Banking & Trust Company and was listed as such in the Rand McNally Bankers Directory, 1920. J.W. Maslin and his wife had two daughters while living here, Marie and Katherine Maslin.

Marie Maslin (born in 1900) married Frank Harper Silver (1898-1987) and he apparently moved into this house with his new wife and her father; 1940 Census records show the widowed Jackson W. Maslin as the head of household, with Frank, Marie, and four children living here. Jackson Maslin’s other daughter Katherine had married Harry E. Leithiser who worked at the Glenn L. Martin Company and in 1940 moved west for a position with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

When Jackson Maslin died in 1943, he willed this house to his two daughters and their spouses. Katherine M. and Harry E. Leithiser, however, relinquished ownership and the house became the property of Marie M. and Frank H. Silver in 1943. They had been living in the home and raised their children here. The children included Nancy Wright Silver (who died in 2008) and Marie Silver Coates (1928-2018), who had married Arthur D. Coates. Marie and Arthur Coates had three sons, including one named Randolph Silver Coates.

Marie Silver died in 1975 and her husband, Frank H. Silver, died in 1987. In his will, he left the property to his daughter, Nancy Wright Silver. When Nancy Silver died in 1987, her heirs and personal representatives sold this house to her nephew, Randolph Silver Coates and his wife, Laurel L. M. Coates. They appear to own this as an investment property and live elsewhere.

County Records
Built 1920. 2875 sq ft, 2.5 stories with basement, brick, 1 bath, detached garage, 10,000 sq ft lot.