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.
Recognizance, charged in association with stolen linen.
Additional names: Edward Stewart, John Wean, John Riddel, Daniel Ehler, Hughy McGrant, Jane Beavens, wife of Wilder Beavens, Ann Howard, Caty Preison, William Flick, John Wean.
3 items, 3 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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, charged with keeping a tippling house.
Additional names: John Eberman, Henry Pinkerton, Paul Dewees, Daniel Ehler, Samuel Kindig, John Brown, James Clendenin, Benjamin Galloway, James Gibbons, John Murphy.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Recognizance, charged with not building a slope for his mill dam on the Conestoga River.
Recognizance.
Recognizance to testify.
Additional names: Martin Lighty, George Lenhart, Michael Reinhart, Stophel Franciscus, Daniel Ehler, John Light, John Wean, Peter Reed, Samuel Light, Jacob Light, John Fordney, John Trisler.
3 items, 3 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.