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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Object ID: MG0166

Date Range: 1738-1920

of militia to service. Other name: Col. Adam Hubley. 1781. Insert 8 Receipt for 2 kegs powder from John Hubley, signed by Erasmus Gill. 1779. Folder 2 Orders by Jacob W. Andrews, Justice of the Peace for townships of Donegal, Mount Joy and Rapho to Constables. Insert 1 Court Order to Leonard Bender

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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Description: 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.

System of Arrangement: Collection retains original arrangement.

Date Range: 1738-1920

Year Range From: 1738

Year Range To: 1920

Date of Accumulation: 1738-1920

Creator: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Adams, John Quincy; Adreas, Agnes; Albright, W.; Anderson, James; Andrews, Jacob W.; Andrews, James P.; Ashbridge, Elizabeth; Ashbridge, J. H.; Ashbridge, Sarah; Ashbridge, Sidney; Atlee, Samuel; Attlee, Samuel; Autstch, Adam; Bare, Martin; Barlow, Thomas; Barnitz, Joseph; Barr, John; Barton, David R.; Barton, W.; Bauer, Adam; Beams, Jacob; Beard, Robert; Bearn, John; Beck, Martha; Beck, Paul; Beck, Samuel; Bender, Leonard; Benezet, Daniel; Benner, Henrich; Berntheisel, Henry; Berry, William; Bickham, F. A.; Bickman, George; Bletz, Jacob; Blumer, Abraham; Bollinger, Esther; Bombarger, Martin; Bomberger, John; Bower, Samuel P.; Bowman, Henry; Bowman, J.; Bowman, Samuel; Bowman, W.; Boyd, James; Boyd, Samuel; Bradford, Samuel J.; Breck, Samuel; Bredenstein, Philip; Brown, David; Brown, Matthew; Brown, William; Broud, Bill; Bruener, G.; Bryan, George; Bryan, George I.; Burd, Edward; Burkholder, E.; Burt, Nathaniel; Caldwell, James; Caldwell, Oliver; Caldwell, Robert; Calhoun, John C.; Cameron, James; Cameron, John; Campbell, Sarah; Carpenter, Abraham; Carpenter, Daniel; Carpenter, Jacob; Carpenter, William; Cather, Robert; Chambers, Stephen; Chambers, W.; Charlton, Thomas; Clark, Brice; Clark, John; Clark, Washington; Clemson, Joseph; Cochran, A.; Cochran, William; Coleman, William; Connor, Kitty; Cookson, Thomas; Cooper, William; Creasy, Solomon; Creasy, Solomon M.; Crone, Robert; Cunningham, Hugh; Cunningham, Thomas; Damant, James; Damisch, Fred; Davis, Zaccheus; Deckert, Jacob; Dederick, Henry; Dering, Henry; Derward, Jonas; Detrick, P.; Dickert, Jacob; Dieterick, Jacob; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderfer, Michael; Diffenderfer, Philip; Diller, Peter; Doerses, Frederick; Dougherty, William; Douglass, George; Douglass, James; Doyle, Thomas; Dryer, Andrew; Dubbs, Joseph H.; Duck, Geotge; Duncan, Daniel; Eagen, James; Eagen, Thomas; Eberman, John; Eberman, Philip; Eckert, George; Eckman, John; Eftwein, Johannes; Eichholtz, H.; Eichholtz, Leonard; Eliot, Daniel; Emanuel, John; Ench, Jacob; Espy, George R.; Evans, Frances; Evans, Isaac; Evans, James C.; Evans, Samuel; Ewing, John; Faghterin, Mary; Fahnestock, Samuel; Fehl, Andrew; Feltman, George; Ferree, Conrad; Ferree, Polly; Fissel, Michael; Flowers, Christian; Foltz, Bernard; Fordney, Casper; Fouts, Martin; Franklin, Thomas; Franklin, Thomas E.; Franklin W. B.; Frantz, Phil; Frey, J.; Fultz, John; Galbraith, Bertram; Galloway, Joseph; Geddis, Samuel; Gibble, L. W.; Gibbons, William; Gildersleve, Jonathan H.; Gildersleve Sarah; Gill, Deborah; Gill, Eramus; Gill, James; Gill, Matthew; Givler, Mary; Golden, Jeffery; Graass, Jacob; Graeff, Matthias; Graeff, W.; Graff, Benjamin; Graff, Henry; Graff, Jacob; Gratz, Hyman; Groff, Abraham; Groff, David; Groff, Isaac; Gross, Michael; Grove, Abraham; Grubb, Baird; Grubb, Curtis; Grubb, Henry; Habacker, George; Habacker, Wager; Hartz, John; Hake, Elizabeth; Hake, Jacob; Hale, Charles; Hambright, Henry; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hart, Elizabeth; Hartand, John; Hartmyer, Frederick; Haton, James; Hatz, John; Hayn, Christopher; Hehl, Matthew; Henderson, Mary; Henry, Christopher; Henry, Elizabeth; Henry, Joseph; Henry, Josiah; Henry, John Joseph; Henry, Mary; Herr, Christian; Hensel, William Uhler; Hibshman, Henry; Hoff, John; Hoofnagle, P.; Hoover, Jacob; Host, Catharine; Host, Michael; Howell, William H.; Howell, William Wilson; Huber, J.; Huber, John; Hubley, Adam; Hubley, John; Hubley, Joseph; Hubley, M.; Hubner, Nathanael; Huston, Alex; Hutchinson, E.; Jacks, James; Jenkins, Ron; Johns, Elizabeth; Johns, Jacob; Johns, Paul; Johnston, Sam; Jones, John; Jones, Owen; Jones, Paul T.; Jordan, J.; Kauffman, Abraham; Kauffman, Joseph; Kehler, Andrew; Kelly, Joseph P.; Kelly, William; Kenedy, John; Kittera, John Wilkes; Kittera, Thomas; Kline, David; Kline, George; Kline, Michael; Kling, M.; Konigmaker, James; Krebil, John; Krieg, Philip; Krug, Edward; Krug, H. V.; Krug, Jacob; Krug, Valentine; Kuhn, Frederick; Kuhn, Jacob; Lanck, Jacob; Landes, John; Lauman, Ludwig; Lechler, John; Leman, H. E.; Lewis, Abraham; Lewis, Ellis; Liews, Eliza; Lightner, Nathaniel; Likens, James; Lind, John; Long, Charles E.; Long, Jacob; Longenecker, David; Lowery, Alexander; Lowery, Lazarus; Lowman, Ludwig; Lutz, Peter; Lynch, Thomas; MacGonigle, Jonathan T.; MacGregor, John; MacGregor, Peter; Machold, Lewis Frederick; Marshall, Christopher; Matlack, Timothy; Mattes, George; Mauer, Peter; Maus, Peter; Mayer, John; Mayer, Lewis; McGown, William; McClure, David; McClure, Randle; McKim, James; McKinney, Mordecai; Mease, James; Mease, John; Mercer, John Q.; Messersmith, George; Metzer, Jonas; Metzer, Norman; Miller, David; Miller, Harry; Miller, Henry; Miller, James; Miller, John; Miller, T. H.; Minnich, Lizzie; Mohler, Henry; Montgomery, Jane; Montgomery, S. H.; Moore, James; Moore, John; Musser, John; Myer, John; Myer, John P.; Myer, Josephine; Myers, Christian; Myers, Eckert; Myers, Henry; Myers, Jacob; Myers, John; Myers, Joseph; Myers, Josephine; Myers, S. H.; Myers, Sidney; Muhlenberg, F. A.; Muhlenberg, G. H. E.; Muhlenberg, Henry; Muhlenberg, Henry A.; Munster, Paul; Nager, Ben Willis; Nagle, John; Neal, John; Nees, Adam; Neisser, G. Br.; Nelson, William; Nicholson, John; Norgrave, H.; Odonel, Charles; Old, James; Parvin, Francis; Passmore, John; Patton, James; Pendleton, George H.; Pennypacker, Samuel W.; Penrose, Clement; Petersby, Richard; Physick, Edmund; Pine, Michael; Pohlman, Abraham; Price, Eli K.; Purviance, Samuel; Ralston, Robert; Ramsay, Catharine; Ramsay, David; Ramsay, James; Ramsay, Nathaniel; Ramsay, William; Randall, Samuel; Rank, Samuel; Redsecker, Jacob; Reed, E. L.; Reed, George; Reedly, George; Reedly, John; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Jacob; Riche, Thomas; Rieger, Ann; Rohrer, John; Ross, George; Ross, James; Roth, Jacob; Schaum, Philip; Scheaffer, John; Schnierer, John, Mrs.; Schweinhaupt, Br.; Sell, Henry; Seward, Hugh; Shafer, John; Shaffer, Jacob; Sharer, David; Shearer, Jacob; Sheef, William; Sheldon, William; Shippen, Edward; Shireman, Jacob; Shol, Peter; Shware, Peter; Simon, Joseph; Simon, William; Sindersmith, S. V.; Singer, Casper; Singer, Emanuel; Skiles, William; Slaugher, Hiram; Slaymaker, Amos; Slaymaker, Henry; Slough, Matthias; Smith, A. Herr; Smith, Eliza; Smith, Joanna; Smith, Thomas; Smith, William; Snapp, Samuel; Solomon, Myer; Spencer, S. S.; Sprecher, Frank L.; Stauffer, Henry; Stedman, Alex; Stedman, Charles; Steinert, Christian; Steinman, Charles; Steinman, Frederick; Steinman, George; Steinman, John F.; Stevens, R. S.; Stevenson, George; Stone, John; Stoneman, Tobias; Stones, John; Stuart, Robert; Swan, John G.; Swain, R.; Swentzel, H. Y.; Swift, Joseph; Tanger, David R.; Titball, Joseph; Trimble, James; Trissler, John; Trissler, Joseph David; Turner, Ambrose; Turner, Catharine; Wagen, Philip; Walk, Deetrick; Walker, John; Wallace, John; Wallace, William; Warden, M.; Warfel, John; Washington, Samuel; Watson, David; Webb, James; Weber, Adam; Wegman, Mary; Weitzel, George; Wenger, Roland; Werner, Jacob; Wertsburger, Henry; West, William; Wetherill, Samuel P.; White, George; White, T.; Whitaker, George; Wildred, Daniel; Williams, Evans P.; Williams, John; Wistar, Thomas; Witlow, Hugh; Witman, John; Witman, Michael; Witmer, Abraham; Witmer, Benjamin; Witmer, David; Witmer, Henry; Wolford, Ludwig; Wood, George; Work, Joseph; Wright, James; Wright, John; Wright, S. W.; Yaner, Jacob; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, John; Young, Henry; Young, Mattias; Zahm, Godfrey; Zantzinger, Adam; Zantzinger, Ester; Zeigler, George; Zimmer, Henry

Subjects: Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Court records; Finance, Personal; Invoices; Letters; Lotteries; Minutes (Records); Probate records; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Schools; Stocks

Search Terms: Accounts; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Armor's Old Bookstore; Articles of agreement; Beaver Creek; Black Horse Farm; Bonds; Business records; Certificates; Charles E. Wentz and Bros.; Christ Lutheran Church; Cocalico Creek; Conestoga Steam Mills; Constables; Correspondence; Court records; Farmers Bank of Lancaster; Farmer's Hay and Straw Market Association; Finance, Personal; Finding aids; Franklin Savings and Building Association; Grosh and Levering; Hamilton Lots; Indentures; Indian Queen Hotel; Invoices; Lancaster Cemetery; Lancaster County Agricultural Park; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Company; Letters; Lotteries; Manuscript groups; McDowell's Mill; Minutes; Mount Hope Furnace; Northern Central Railway Company; Pennsylvania Council; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Probate records; Protestant Episcopal Church; Receipts; Sam Wetherill and Sons; Schools; Shaffner and Ziegler; St. James Episcopal Church; Steinman and Son; Stocks; Trinity Lutheran Church; W. Kirkpatrick and Company; Zahm and Jackson Jewelers

Extent: 1 box, 27 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0166

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Frank R. Diffenderfer Collection (MG0166), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 1964.013

Other Numbers: MG-166

Classification: MG0166

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 September 2021.; Accession # L64-13

Documents

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Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15832

Corporate Author: Community Map Company.

Date of Publication: 1993?]

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT 101

Alternate Title: Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1993-94 community information guide

Responsibility: Community Map Company.

Corporate Author: Community Map Company.

Place of Publication: Pottstown, Pa. : Elizabethtown, Pa

Publisher: Community Map Company ; Mount Joy Township Board of Supervisors [Distributor,

Date of Publication: 1993?]

Physical Description: 1 map : 4 col. ; 38 x 46 cm. on sheet 49 x 64 cm. folded to 32 x 25 cm.

Notes: Includes indexed advertisements.; "338 89."

Contents: Text on verso: Municipal departments -- Public meetings -- Pa. Senator Noah W. Wenger district office -- Voting districts -- New and revised ordinances -- Permits -- 1993 elected and appointed officials -- Federal officials.

Subjects: Municipal government - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy (Lancaster County : Township) - Directories.; Election districts - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy (Lancaster County : Township) - Directories.; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT 101

History of Mount Joy's first all-borough high school

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7017

Author: Albert, Vera E.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.1, no.1

Responsibility: by Vera E. Albert.

Author: Albert, Vera E.

Place of Publication: Mount Joy (Pa.) Area Historical Society

Publisher: The Society ,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: 24 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series: Remember when ; v.1, no. 1.

Subjects: Marietta Street School (Mount Joy, Pa.) - History.; Schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Mount Joy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.1, no.1

A people committed : the story of the West Green Tree Church of the Brethren

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3238

Author: Hess, Robert A.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 286.5 H586

Responsibility: by Robert A. Hess.

Author: Hess, Robert A.

Place of Publication: Grantham, Pa

Publisher: Messiah College Reprographics,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Subjects: West Green Tree Church of the Brethren (Mount Joy Township, Pa.) - History.; Mount Joy Township (Pa.) - Church history.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.5 H586

[The life of K.T. Keller and Mount Joy community exhibits]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4476

Author: [Heisey, Deborah Tober].

Edition: Third booklet publication.

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.3, no.1

Author: [Heisey, Deborah Tober].

Edition: Third booklet publication.

Place of Publication: [Mount Joy, Pa.?]

Publisher: Mount Joy Area Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Series: Remember when ;

Notes: Click on Table of Contents for more information.; Title from cover.

Contents: K.T. Keller...his special relationship with Mount Joy--From life of an American workman--From Chrysler Corporation--The two fire truck gifts--Mount Joy's community exhibits.

Subjects: Keller, K. T.; Agricultural exhibitions - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy.; Mount Joy (Pa.) - History-20th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.3, no.1

Tell General Lane to come in, Joseph Farmer Knipe at Chancellorsville and other Civil War stories

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4789

Author: Ellis, Jean H.

Edition: Fourth booklet publication.

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 V. 3 # 2

Responsibility: researched and edited by Jean H. Ellis.

Author: Ellis, Jean H.

Edition: Fourth booklet publication.

Place of Publication: [Mount Joy, Pa.?]

Publisher: Mount Joy Area Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: 61 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.

Series: Remember when ;

Notes: Includes a list of Civil War veterans buried in Mount Joy, Pa., and the names of additional Mount Joy veterans.; Includes bibliographical references (p.60-61).

Subjects: Knipe, Joseph Farmer - 1823-1901.; United States; Veterans - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy.; Mount Joy (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 V. 3 # 2

1990 Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15831

Corporate Author: Community Map Company.

Date of Publication: 1990?]

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT 102

Alternate Title: Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1990 government directory.

Responsibility: Community Map Company.

Corporate Author: Community Map Company.

Place of Publication: Pottstown, Pa. : Elizabethtown, Pa

Publisher: Community Map Co. ; Mount Joy Township Board of Supervisors [Distributor,

Date of Publication: 1990?]

Physical Description: 1 map : 4 col. ; 38 x 46 cm., on sheet 49 x 64 cm., folded to 32 x 25 cm.

Notes: Includes indexed advertisements.; Text, municipal directory, and ill. on verso.

Subjects: Municipal government - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy (Lancaster County : Township) - Directories.; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Maps.

Additional Corporate Author: Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township). Board of Supervisors.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT 102

Camp Hill Cemetery, Mount Joy, Lancaster County Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9192

Date of Publication: 1999

Call Number: 310.35 C186

Responsibility: transciption [by] Peggy Reichard, recorded by Lloyd Zeager, 1999.

Place of Publication: Computer Print-out

Date of Publication: 1999

Physical Description: unpages ; 29 cm

Notes: Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 330 # 26.

Subjects: Camp Hill Cemetery (Mount Joy, Pa. : Township); Registers of birth, etc. - Pennsylvania - (Mount Joy : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 C186

Cedar Hill Seminary : and diary of a teenager in Mount Joy, 1953

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7018

Author: Albert, Vera E.

Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.2, no.1

Responsibility: by Vera E. Albert.

Author: Albert, Vera E.

Place of Publication: Mount Joy,(Pa.) Area Historical Society

Publisher: The Society ,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: 36 p. ill. : 22 cm.

Series: Remember when ; v.2, no. 1.

Notes: Diary of Adeline C. Wykoff translated by Virginia Lane.

Subjects: Wycoff, Adeline C.; Dodge family.; Wycoff family - Diaries.; Cedar Hill Female Seminary (Chiques, Pa.) - History.; Schools - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy.; Diaries.

Additional Author: Lane, Virginia

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJT H673 v.2, no.1

Donegal Presbyterians a Scots-Irish congregation in Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo201

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Date of Publication: 1995

Call Number: 285.1 D681m

Responsibility: Richard K. MacMaster

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, Pa

Publisher: Masthof Press

Date of Publication: 1995

Physical Description: 174 p. ill. 24 cm.

Notes: Book number 123 of 650. Published in cooperation with The Donegal Society.

Summary: Donegal Presbyterian Church was started by Scots-Irish settlers in Lancaster Co, PA, in 1724. This church history tells about the early families, the famed Witness Tree, and the many elders, preachers, and members of a congregation facing its third century.

Subjects: Donegal Presbyterian Church (Mount Joy, Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 D681m

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