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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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Modus intrandi placita generalia : the entring clerk's introduction : being a collection of such precedents of declarations, and other pleadings, with process as well mesn as judicial, as are generally used in every days practice : with notes and observations thereupon composed, for the benefit of the students of the common law of England, as also of the attorneys, entring clerks, and sollicitors of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, acquainting them with the rudiments of clerkship, and such general pleadings and process as are used at this day in the courts of record at Westminster

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.

Date of Publication: 1702-1703.

Call Number: Book 1024 1702; Book 1025 1703

Alternate Title: Entring clerk's introduction

Responsibility: by William Brown, Gent., author of Formulae bene placitandi.

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for J. Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1702-1703.

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: Vol. 2 has no ed. statement.; Vol. 1: [24], 406, [34] p.; v. 2: [8], 315, [15] p.; Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck owner.; Book numbers 1024 and 1025 as assigned by Yeates.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,; English short title catalogue,

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1024 1702; Book 1025 1703

Instructor clericalis

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Author: R. G.

Edition: [1st-5th eds.].

Date of Publication: 1706-1715.

Call Number: Book 1026 1721; Book 1027 1715; Book 1028 1713; Bookk 1029 1717; Book 1031 1713; Book 1030 1713

Author: R. G.

Edition: [1st-5th eds.].

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy : For

Publisher: Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq ; Thomas Bever, at the Hand and Star within Temple Bar.,

Date of Publication: 1706-1715.

Physical Description: 5 volumes in 6 ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: Mixed set: v.1, 6h ed., 1721; v.2, 4th ed., 1715; v.3, 3d ed., 1713; v.4, 2nd ed., 1717; v.5:1, [1st] ed., 1713; v.5:2, [1st] ed., 1713; v.6 ("Sixth part" also called "Vol. VII"), [1st] ed., 1714. -- Imprint taken from v.1; publisher varies.; Subtitle varies: v.1: Directing clerks both in the court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas: in the abbreviation and contraction of words ... in the filling up and suing out writs of first process, in drawing declarations, making up issues, ingrossing records, entring[sic] judgments, and suing out executions: also pleas and demurrers, &c. ... ; v.2: Being a collection of choice and usual precedents for declarations in the King's-Bench and Common Pleas ... ; v.3: Being a collection of choice and useful precedents for pleadings ... ; vols.4-5: Being a continuance of bars ("barrs" v.4) and other pleadings ....; On t-ps of v.3-5: by R.G., a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; in v.1, "To the reader" subscribed: R.G.; on t.p. v.2: By the author of the first part.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 1026-1031 as asssigned by Yeates.

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.; Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1026 1721; Book 1027 1715; Book 1028 1713; Bookk 1029 1717; Book 1031 1713; Book 1030 1713

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

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)

The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court

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Author: Vidian, Andrew.

Date of Publication: MDCLXXXIV [1684]

Call Number: Book 61 1684

Responsibility: by Andrew Vidian ...

Author: Vidian, Andrew.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Christopher Wilkinson, Tho. Dring, and Charles Harper, at their shops in Fleet-Street,

Date of Publication: MDCLXXXIV [1684]

Physical Description: [24], 266 [i.e. 268], [20] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² a-eÂ² B-2Lâ´ 2M-2RÂ².; Errors in paging: p. 137-140 omitted, p. 103-104, 133-136 repeated in the numbering; p. 113, 116, 214, 250 and 251 misnumbered 413, 416, 216, 242 and 243 respectively.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 61 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - England; England, civil procedure; Civil procedure.; Criminal procedure.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 61 1684

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

The arguments and reports of Sr. Hen. Pollexfen ... in some special cases; by him argued during the time of his practice at the barr. [1669-1685]

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Date of Publication: 1702.

Call Number: Book 581 1702

Responsibility: Together with divers decrees in the High Court of Chancery. Upon limitations of trusts of terms for years. The whole printed from the authors original manuscript. Revised and corrected with his own hand. And published with the allowance and approbation of the lord keeper, and all the judges.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for R. Smith,

Date of Publication: 1702.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 250 (i. e. 246), 369-664, [8] pages 33 cm

Notes: Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, AÂ², aÂ², B-ZÂ², Aa-ZzÂ², AaaÂ²-RrrÂ¹, Aaaaa-ZzzzzÂ², Aaaaaa-ZzzzzzÂ², 7A-7ZÂ², 8A-8GÂ².; Errors in paging: p. 173-176, 649 and 652 incorrectly numbered 176-179, 652 and 629, respectively; nos. 181-184, 188 omitted, no. 189 duplicated.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 581 as assigned by Yeates.; Printedn and hane-written marginalia.

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

Additional Author: Pollexfen, Henry,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Chancery.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 581 1702

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Instructor clericalis

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22158

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

The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20864

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

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The arguments and reports of Sr. Hen. Pollexfen ... in some special cases; by him argued during the time of his practice at the barr. [1669-1685]

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