The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
Bonds posted by constables, showing names of constable and surety; date and amount of bond; conditions of obligation; signatures of constable, surety, and witnesses; and date filed. Arr. chron. by date filed. No index. Hdw. and typed on ptd. fm.
Admin/Biographical History
The County of Lancaster has given LancasterHistory.org custodial responsibility of this collection.
System of Arrangement
Arranged by year; alphabetical by surname with in year.
Additional names: Ann McIntosh, William Wright, Jacob Wolfartone, John Trissler, Sophia Sellers, Elizabeth Forry, Stephen Milton, Hugh Steward, Widow Leo.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Recognizance, for counterfeiting and forging banknotes.
Recognizance for Charles Montfort for charged with aiding and assisting Henry Merklein in forging bank notes.
Depositions of John Dady, George Kintzel, Charles Montfort, Henry Merklein, Adam Konigmacher, John Ruth, Jacob Bricker, George Leed, Frederick Schlott.
Summons for Charles McKeeve.
Additional names: John Dady, Daniel Haines, Charles McKeeve, George Kintzel, Daniel Merkle, Abraham Konigmacher, John Root, Jacob Bricker, George Leed, Frederick Schlott.
11 items, 11 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Recognizance, charged for conspiring by Adam Weitzel.
Additional names: Henry Hambright, Charles Montelius, John Root, Frederick Shlott, Jacob Bricker, William Shabbert, John Lutz, Peter Hoofnagel, Peter Gloss, John Dady.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.