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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

Melchor Kock. John Brubaker and John Devenderffer were executors for Melchor Kock’s estate. 1 March 1787. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 10 Deed from Christina Diefenderfer and Matthias Young, both of Lancaster, to David

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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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Historical law-tracts, vol. I-[II]

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Author: Kames, Henry Home,

Date of Publication: MDCCLVIII [1758]

Call Number: Book 672 1758

Author: Kames, Henry Home,

Place of Publication: Edinburgh

Publisher: Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head in the Strand, London ; and A. Kincaid, and J. Bell, Edinburgh,

Date of Publication: MDCCLVIII [1758]

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)

Notes: Vol. I: xvi, 430 p.; v. II: 221, [1], 54 p.; "The discourses relate, each of them, to subjects common to the law of England and of Scotland"--Preface.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 672 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC

Contents: I. History of the criminal law -- II. History of promises and covenants -- III. History of property -- IV. History of securities upon land for payment of debt -- V. History of the privilege which an heir-apparent in a feudal holding has, to continue the possession of his ancestor -- VI. History of regalities, and of the privilege of repledging -- VII. History of courts -- V. 2, VIII. History of brieves -- IX. History of process in absence -- X. History of execution against movables and land for payment of debt -- XI. History of personal execution for payment of debt -- XII. History of execution for obtaining payment after the death of the debtor -- XIII. History of the limited and universal representation of heirs -- XIV. Old and new extent -- Appendix.

Subjects: Law - England; Law - Scotland; Law.; England.; Scotland.; History.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 672 1758

A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Date of Publication: M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]

Call Number: Book 697 1756; Book 696 1732

Responsibility: By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,

Date of Publication: M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]

Physical Description: 2 volumes 33 cm

Notes: Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.; Subtitle of v. 2 varies.; Vol. 2 printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title pages.; Book numbers 696 and 697 as assigned by Yeates.

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

Additional Author: Foley, Robert.; Gilbert, Geoffrey,; Bacon, Matthew,; Pooley, Henry.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 697 1756; Book 696 1732

Order for Payment

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Collection: George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera

Title: Invoice from and order to pay Abraham Laroy

Object ID: MG0184_S02_F015_In04

Date Range: 1757/03/26

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Collection: George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera

Title: Invoice from and order to pay Abraham Laroy

Description: Invoice to the Lancaster County Commissioners from Abraham Laroy repair the town clock. 1757.; On reverse: Order from the Lancaster County Commissioners to pay Abraham Laroy. 26 March 1757.

Date Range: 1757/03/26

Creation Date: 1757

Creator: Leroy, Abraham, d. 1765

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

Storage Container: Series 02, Box 0001

People: Davis, Zaccheus; Hubley, Michael; Leroy, Abraham; Steel, Samuel; Taylor, David

Subjects: Clock and watch makers; Clocks and watches; Clocks and watches--Repairing; Invoices

Search Terms: Clock and watch makers; Clocks; Commissioners' Orders for Payment; Invoices; Lancaster

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages scanned

Object Name: Order for Payment

Language: English

Object ID: MG0184_S02_F015_In04

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650; George Steinman Papers, Series 2 (MG0184_S02) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6c7e11c6-f3ca-469c-891a-145832196710

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), George Steinman Papers (MG0184), Series 2, Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Copyright: Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.; LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site 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.

Other Numbers: MG-184, Series 2

Other Number: MG-184, Series 2, Folder 15, Insert 4

Classification: MG0184

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 11 May 2024.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.

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MG0184_S02_F015_In04.pdf

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The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21749

Edition: 2d ed.

Date of Publication: 1751.

Call Number: Book 695 1751

Responsibility: The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.

Edition: 2d ed.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: T. Osborne,

Date of Publication: 1751.

Physical Description: 16 preliminary leaves, 372, [16] pages 32 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book 695 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain.; Equity - Great Britain.; Legal maxims - Great Britain.; Equity.; Law.; Legal maxims.; Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 695 1751

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21754

Date of Publication: 1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]

Call Number: Book 700 1741; Book 701 1741a; Book 702 1750

Responsibility: collected by William Peere Williams ...

Place of Publication: Dublin

Publisher: Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,

Date of Publication: 1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]

Physical Description: 3 volumes ; 32 cm

Notes: "Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."; Title varies slightly.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title pages.; Book numbers 700-702 as assigned by Yeates.

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

Additional Author: Williams, William Peere,; Yeates, Jasper,

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 700 1741; Book 701 1741a; Book 702 1750

Cases in equity during the time of the late Lord Chancellor Talbot, 1730-1737 : with tables of the names of the cases and principal matters

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Edition: 2nd ed. /

Date of Publication: 1753.

Call Number: Book 706 1753

Edition: 2nd ed. /

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by Henry Lintot for T. Waller,

Date of Publication: 1753.

Physical Description: vi, 286, [18] pages ; 33 cm

Notes: The preface to the 3rd edition, 1792, states that the cases were taken from ms. notes of Mr. Forrester, and they are sometimes cited under his name.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 706 as assigned by Yeates.; Hand-written marginalia.

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

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Talbot, Charles Talbot,; Forrester, Alexander,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 706 1753

A collection of modern entries, or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer : viz. declarations, pleas in abatement and in bar, replications, rejoinders, &c., demurrers, issues, verdicts, judgments, forms of making up records of nisi prius, and entring of judgments, &c., in most actions. Many of them drawn or perused by Mr. Broderick, Carthew, Comyns, Darnel ... and other learned counsel. As also special assignments of errors, and writs and proceedings thereupon, both in the said courts and in Parliament. With the method of suing to and reversing outlawries by writ of error or otherwise. To which is added a collection of writs in most cases now in practice. With two tables, one of the names of the cases, and the other of the pleadings and writs

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Author: Lilly, John,

Edition: The 3rd ed.

Date of Publication: 1758.

Call Number: Book 728 1758

Responsibility: by John Lilly.

Author: Lilly, John,

Edition: The 3rd ed.

Place of Publication: [London] in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne ... [et al.],

Date of Publication: 1758.

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 676, [30] pages ; 36 cm

Notes: Error in paging: no. 361-362 omitted; no. 377-378 duplicated.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 728 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full 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.; Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 728 1758

Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench, in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Second, [1737-1738]

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

Date of Publication: 1754.

Call Number: Book 141 1754

Alternate Title: Andrews reports

Responsibility: by George Andrews ...

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

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by H. Lintot, for J. Worrdl,

Date of Publication: 1754.

Physical Description: [8], 397, [36] pages 33 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 141 as assigned by Yeates.; Handwritten marginal notes.

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: Andrews, George,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 141 1754

The law of evidence : with all the original references, carefully compared. To which is added, a great number of new references, from the best authorities. And now first publish'd from an exact copy taken from the original manuscript. With a compleat table to the whole

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Author: Gilbert, Geoffrey,

Date of Publication: 1754.

Call Number: Book 206 1754

Responsibility: by a late learned Judge.

Author: Gilbert, Geoffrey,

Place of Publication: Dublin

Publisher: Printed for Sarah Cotter under Dick's Coffie-House in Skinner-Row,

Date of Publication: 1754.

Physical Description: 1 preliminary leaf, [5], 199, [24] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: List of subscribers follow title page.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates signature at top of title page over struck former owner.; Book number 206 as assigned by Yeates.; Inscription on first fly leaf..

Subjects: Evidence (Law) - Great Britain.; Evidence (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: Book 206 1754

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Historical law-tracts, vol. I-[II]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21738

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21751

Order for Payment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/98f08d33-bf1f-4815-aaad-064508171193

Documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21749

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21754

Cases in equity during the time of the late Lord Chancellor Talbot, 1730-1737 : with tables of the names of the cases and principal matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21757

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21773

Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench, in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Second, [1737-1738]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20978

The law of evidence : with all the original references, carefully compared. To which is added, a great number of new references, from the best authorities. And now first publish'd from an exact copy taken from the original manuscript. With a compleat table to the whole

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21005