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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

. No date. “The Conestoga River,” by James D. Law in Philadelphia. Dedicated to Dr. F. R. Diffenderffer. 15 February 1912. “’The Lancaster Dutch,’” by Blanche Nevin. Note that this was read by her at the Bicentenary of the First Settlements but was not in the regular program nor printed in the official

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Description: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.

Date Range: 1691-1963

Year Range From: 1691

Year Range To: 1963

Date of Accumulation: 1691-1963

Creator: Diffenderffer family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Brubaker, John; Brubaker, Margaret; Brubaker, Philip; Davis, Sarah; Diffenderfer, David; Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk; Diffenderfer, John; Diffenderffer, Christina; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, David, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderffer, John, Jr.; Diffenderffer, John, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein; Diffenderffer, Michael; Freymyer, Jacob; Grim, Henry; Haupt, Charles Elvin; Hoch, Herman E.; Holl, Wendel; Hubley, Bernard; Kennerly, John; Kinzer, John; Kinzer, Magdalena; Koch, Mary; Koch, Melchior; Law, James D.; Markley, Henry; McCaskey, Donald G.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; Nevin, Blanche; Painter, John; Penn, William; Rodman, John H.; Shirk, Henry; Smith, Oliver; Smith, William Evans; Sneider, Christian; Stone, David; Stone, George; Stone, Leonard; Stone, Mary; Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer; Thomson, Bill "Tommy"; Winter, John; Young, Matthias

Other Creators: Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009; Diffenderffer, David

Subjects: Deeds; Letters; Real property

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Conestoga River; Correspondence; Deeds; Drowning; Earl Twp.; England; Estate settlement; Finding aids; German Reformed Church of New Holland; Haupt Elementary School; Hutchings Printing House; King Street; Lancaster; Land drafts; Lemon Street School; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mortgages; New Design, Earl Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Programs; Real estate; Real property surveys; Reigart's Landing; Susquehanna River; Texas; Texas Frontier Forces; Windsor Forge

Extent: 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0410

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.; Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2006.MG0410_NOV

Other Numbers: MG-410

Classification: MG0410

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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The entring clerk's vade mecum : being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions, especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators, executrices, administratices, and their husbands, in personal actions : also upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c., and such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto : being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks, and attornies in His Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common Pleas, as also to the attornies and practicers of every inferieur court and county-judicature

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Date of Publication: 1695.

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

Responsibility: collected by William Brown, Gent.

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Nathaniel Ponder, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,

Date of Publication: 1695.

Physical Description: [8], 600, [64] p. 29 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´ 2R-2Uâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number1023 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed., 1994); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

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Author: Rastell, William,

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Call Number: Book 59 1770

Responsibility: by William Rastell, Esq.

Author: Rastell, William,

Uniform Title: Colleccion of entrees

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge ... [and 13 others],

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Physical Description: [4], 704 leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [par.]â´ A-4Tâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 59 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 59 1770

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20862

Author: Rastell, William,

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Responsibility: by William Rastell, Esq.

Author: Rastell, William,

Uniform Title: Colleccion of entrees

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge ... [and 13 others],

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Physical Description: [4], 704 leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [par.]â´ A-4Tâ¸.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Corporate Author: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Liber placitandi : a book of special pleadings, containing precedents of pleas in abatement, declarations, barrs, replications, rejoynders, demurrers, issues, and judgments, in the now most common and ordinary actions : viz., actions upon the case, actions upon statutes, account, covenant, debt, prohibitions, replevin, scire facias, and trespass : also the forms of entries in writs of error, utlaries, general issues, and judgments, intended for the benefit of the students of the common law, and for the use of practising clerks and attorneys : together with a table

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Date of Publication: 1674.

Call Number: Bookk 69 1674

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for John Place and Thomas Basset, and are to be sold at their shops ...,

Date of Publication: 1674.

Physical Description: [4], 460, [28] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: AÂ² B-3Mâ´ 3NÂ² 4A-4Câ´ 4DÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Handwritten notes on back inside cover.; Book number 69 as assigned by Yeates34191000148657; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC; Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson

Subjects: Pleading - England.; Forms (Law) - England.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; England.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Bookk 69 1674

A booke of entries : containing perfect and approued presidents of counts, declarations, informations, pleints, inditements, barres, replications, reioynders, pleadings, processes, continuances, essoines, issues, defaults, departure in despite of the court, demurrers, trialls, iudgements, executions, and all other matters and proceedings (in effect) concerning the practique part of the laws of England, in actions reall, personall, and mixt, and in appeales ; necessarie to be knowne, and of excellent vse for the moderne practise of the law, many of them contaynin matters in law and points of great learning: and none of them euer imprinted heretofore. Collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the studious and learned professors of the laws of England

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Author: Coke, Edward,

Date of Publication: Anno Dom. 1614.

Call Number: Book 213 1614

Author: Coke, Edward,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers,

Date of Publication: Anno Dom. 1614.

Physical Description: [10], 713, [11] leaves ; 33 cm

Notes: Prefaces signed: Edvv. Coke.; Includes index.; Edited by Thomas Jones, Common Serjeant of London?; At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.; Printer's name from STC.; Black letter, in two columns.; Title ornaments, initials, head and tail pieces.; Mostly in Latin, with Law French.; Marginal notes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 213 as assigned by Yeates.; STC; ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Jones, Thomas; Blackburn, William,; Blackburn, Eleonora,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 213 1614

Brownlow LatinÃ¨ redivivus : a book of entries : of such declarations, informations, pleas in barr and abatement, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, bills of exception to verdicts, judgments, demurrers, and other parts of pleadings, (now in use) in personal and mixt actions : contained in the first and second parts of the declarations and pleadings of Richard Brownlow

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Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Alternate Title: Book of entries

Responsibility: (unskilfully turned into English, and) printed in the years 1653 and 1654 ; now published in Latin, their original language, with additions of authentick modern precedents, inserted under every title, and a copious table, after the method of Mr. Townsend.

Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns ... and are to be sold by S. Heyrick ... T. and G. Sawbridge ... and M. Gillyflower ...,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Physical Description: [6], 260, 361-506, [46] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² aÂ¹ B-2Kâ´ 2LÂ² 3A-3Sâ´ 3T-4GÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Signature of Witt. Cowper, Dec. 9.92. Pr 14s struck through.; Book number 63 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Wythe, George,; Pollock, Frederick,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster

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Author: Kitchin, John.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Date of Publication: 1675.

Call Number: Book 437 1675

Alternate Title: Jurisdictions; Lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn; Brevia selecta, or, Choice writs

Responsibility: written by the methodically learned John Kitchin ... ; to which is also added, Brevia selecta ... by Richard Antrobus and Thomas Impey ...

Author: Kitchin, John.

Uniform Title: Court leete et court baron.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Hen. Twyford ... and Sam. Herrick ...,

Date of Publication: 1675.

Physical Description: [4], 581, [23], 122, [6] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Notes: "The return of writs newly corrected": pages 514-581.; Signatures: AÂ² B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´, chiÂ² Â²A-Hâ¸.; Leaf 2Q4 is blank.; Includes index.; LC copy imperfect: blank leaf 2Q4 wanting.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page adjacent to struck signature of former owner.; Book number 437 as assinged by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: England and Wales. - Marshalsea Court.; Courts baron and courts leet - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Writs - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Courts baron and courts leet.; Pleading.; Real property.; Writs.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Impey, Thomas.; Antrobus, Richard.; Kitchin, John.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 437 1675

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Date of Publication: 1698.

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Responsibility: [1694-1698].

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: A. and J. Churchill,

Date of Publication: 1698.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 224, [2] pages 33 cm

Notes: Reported by Sir Bartholomew Shower.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page beside former owner E. Biddle.; Book number 738 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc - Early works to 1800 - Great Britain; Early works.; Early works to 1800.; Full blind-tolled leather.

Additional Author: Shower, Bartholomew,; Yeates, Jasper,; Biddle, E.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Date of Publication: 1693.

Call Number: Book 555b 1693

Responsibility: The whole taken and collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, kt.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, for Christopher Wilkinson,

Date of Publication: 1693.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 232, 301-512, [20] pages 32 cm

Notes: Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, aâ´, B-Zâ´, Aa-Ffâ´, Gâ´, Aaa-Zzzâ´, Aaaa-Ffffâ´.; "There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.; Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.; Includes index.; Hand-written marginalia thoughout.; Partial bookplate on back of front cover.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 555b as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Hardres, Thomas,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 555b 1693

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22154

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20861

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20862

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20877

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21008

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20867

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21137

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21783

Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21521