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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Diffenderffer Family Papers, 1691-1963 Object ID: MG0410 1 box 23 folders .5 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 10 Scope and Content

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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.

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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 second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained

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Author: West, William,

Date of Publication: 1641.

Call Number: Yeates Book 80 1641

Author: West, William,

Uniform Title: Second part of symboleography

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young.,

Date of Publication: 1641.

Physical Description: [2], 350, [8] leaves ; 22.5 cm. (4to)

Notes: With Latin mottoes and tail piece below title.; "Cum privilegio."--Foot of title page.; Dedicatory letter (in Latin) to Sir Edward Coke, dated 1594, signed: William West.; Collation: [par]Â² A-2Xâ¸ 2Yâ¶ [$4 signed].; Numerous errors in foliation: leaves 24, 35, 52, 62 numbered 21, 37, 51, 64; leaves 144, 163, 165, 216, 256, 259 numbered 146, 136, 146, 215, 255, 258; leaves 284, 286, 287, 288 numbered 286, 284, 293, 286; leaves 298, 299-302, 303-304, 336, 349 numbered 283, 281-284, 284-285, 320, 394.; In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.; Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.; Marginal section notations.; Includes index.; "The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.; Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.; Some handwritten notes in margins.; Wing (2nd ed.); Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.

Subjects: Legal instruments - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Conveyancing - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Conveyancing.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Forms (Law); Legal instruments.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Quarto format (Printing) - England - London - 1641.; Black letter types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.; Roman types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.; Tail-pieces (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.

Additional Author: Flesher, Miles,; Young, Robert,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 80 1641

De pace Regis et regni : viz. a treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and the kingdome, as treasons, homicides, and felonies, menaces, assaults, batteries, ryots, routs, vnlawfull assemblies, forcible entries, forgeries, periuries, maintenance, deceit, extortion, oppression : and how many and what sorts of them there be, and by whom, and what meanes the said offences, and the offendors therein are to be restrained, repressed, or punished

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Author: Pulton, Ferdinando,

Date of Publication: an. Dom. 1623.

Call Number: 762 1623

Responsibility: collected out of the reports of the common laws of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painefull workes of the reuerend iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes by Ferdinando Pulton ...

Author: Pulton, Ferdinando,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for the Companie of Stationers,

Date of Publication: an. Dom. 1623.

Physical Description: [6], 324 [i.e. 243], [17] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Printed by Adam Islip. Cf. STC.; Signatures: A-2Vâ¶ 2Xâ¸.; The first leaf is blank.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 762 as assigned by Yeates.; STC (2nd ed.); ESTC

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: 762 1623

A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant : and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post, with ample and copious instructions on how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same, in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Date of Publication: 1725.

Call Number: Book 885 1725

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Place of Publication: [London], in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer) for D. Browne,

Date of Publication: 1725.

Physical Description: [v], 335, [28], 30 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Notes: English and Latin.; Earlier edition (London, 1678) has title: A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; "The epistle dedicatory" signed: William Brown.; Signatures: A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, a-b4.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 885 as assigned by Yeates.

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 885 1725

The infants lawyer : or, The law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges ; their several ages for divers purposes ; guardians and procheim amy, as to suits and defences by them ; actions brought by and against them, with the manner of declarations and pleadings ; fines and recoveries, and other matters of record suffered or acknowledged by them, how reversable ; conveyances and specialties, how bound by them or not ; contracts, promises, &c

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Edition: 3rd ed. :

Date of Publication: 1726.

Call Number: Book 883 1726

Alternate Title: Law (ancient and modern) relating to infants

Responsibility: With an appendix of the forms of declarations and pleadings concerning infants.

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns Edw. Sayer, for James Crokatt,

Date of Publication: 1726.

Physical Description: [24], 380, [28] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 883 as assigned by Yeates.

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 883 1726

Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole

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Author: Bohun, William.

Edition: The second edition corrected with additions.

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [1723]

Call Number: Book 517 1723

Alternate Title: Cursus cancellariae; Course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery

Responsibility: published by William Bohun ...

Author: Bohun, William.

Edition: The second edition corrected with additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [1723]

Physical Description: [8], 513, [11] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 517 as assigned by Yeates.; Signatures: Aâ´ B-2Kâ¸ Lâ¶.; First leaf is a bookseller's advertisement.; Includes index.; ESTC

Subjects: Great Britain. - Court of Chancery - Early works to 1800.; Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.; Equity pleading and procedure - England - Early works to 1800.; Equity pleading and procedure.; England.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding); Early works.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Walthoe, John,

Additional Corporate Author: E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 517 1723

A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c

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Author: Cowell, John,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Call Number: Book 793 1727

Alternate Title: Interpreter of words and terms

Author: Cowell, John,

Uniform Title: Interpreter

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe ... [and 10 others],

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Physical Description: [488] p. ; 33 cm. (folio)

Notes: Originally issued with title: The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.; Signatures: Aâ¶ B-Zâ´ 2A-2Zâ´ 3A-3Nâ´ 3O-3QÂ².; The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.; "Books lately printed": p. [488], 3Q2v.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 793 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC (RLIN)

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.; Names, Geographical - Great Britain.; Law.; Names, Geographical.; Great Britain.; Dictionaries.; 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 793 1727

Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Date of Publication: MDCXLVIII, [1648]

Call Number: Book 506 1648

Responsibility: Collected by John March.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by M.F. for W. Lee, M. Walbanke, D. Pakeman, and G. Beadel,

Date of Publication: MDCXLVIII, [1648]

Physical Description: 1 preliminary leaf, 218, [20] pages ; 19 cm

Notes: Manuscript notes on margins.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 506 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather badly cracked (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label Binding)

Additional Author: March, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 506 1648

Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained

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Author: Rastell, John,

Edition: Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words /

Date of Publication: MDCCXXI [1721].

Call Number: Book number 832 1721; Book 832 1721

Alternate Title: Termes de la ley; Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained

Author: Rastell, John,

Uniform Title: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum.

Edition: Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words /

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXI [1721].

Physical Description: [4], 592 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Anonymous. By John Rastell. Possibly translated by John Rastell's son William.; First published in 1527 as "Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum."; Signatures: [A]Â² B-2Pâ¸.; Copy 2 has the initials L. T. K, 1774 at top of title page and signature of Jno. Yeates on back of front cover, and on front leaf and inscription "Jrai Rddai moddyybiy"; Binding is full blind-tooled decorated leather.; Jasper Yeates' Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 832 on both copies as asssigned by Yeates.; ESTC,

Subjects: Law - England - Dictionaries.; English language - Dictionaries; English language.; Law.; England.; Dictionaries.; Three-quarters leather [removed] on linen boards (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Rastell, William,; Mure, William,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book number 832 1721; Book 832 1721

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Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments

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Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained

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