Sebring graveyard

I just read this in W. W. H. Davis's 1905 History of Bucks County.

Does anyone know what cemetery he's talking about? Is it just the Carversville cemetery, or is he talking about some new, exciting graveyard I haven't been to yet?

Also: Reading Davis always gives me such a headache. I need a whiskey.
Half a mile southeast of Carversville, on the road to Aquetong, is an old graveyard known as the ''Sebring'' graveyard, and in it were buried the former owners of the four hundred and fifty acre tract of which it was a part. The tract is now surrounded by public roads; on the northeast by the road above mentioned, the Lumberville road on the southeast, the Street road on the southwest, and the road from the Street road, to Mahlon Carver's corner on the northwest. It was laid out to Thomas Carnes in 1702. He devised it to his aunt Ellen Saunders of Yorkshire, England, the same year; she to George Parker, Yorkshire, same year, late of Philadelphia; he to Ambrose Barcroft, Talbot county, Maryland, in 1723. In 1724-25 Barcroft was drowned in the Delaware, when the property descended to his three sons, William, Ambrose and John. The second Ambrose Barcroft and John Hough were the builders of the Carversville mill, about 1730; and William and John Barcroft conveyed their share of the four hundred and fifty acre tract to John Sebring in 1746. Later the tract was found to contain but four hundred acres ... Probably the oldest stone in the Sebring graveyard is that marked "A. B." supposed to be the grave of Ambrose Barcroft, Sr. There also are found the tomb stones of John Sebring, Sr., 1773, John Sebring, Jr., 1777, Hugh McFall, 1786, John Leasman, 1793, and a number of others, ranging in dates from 1766 to 1779.

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  1. This area can be studied at mercer museum as well,they have a list of graveyards going back to before 1749 which is one of the oldest documented in bucks ,st johns church in ottsville

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