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Chains of titles for some early land owners of the Strasburg Village area : a legal perspective

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Author: Weaver, Robert Kean.

Date of Publication: 1993

Call Number: 974.815 STRB W363

Responsibility: by Robert Kean Weaver

Author: Weaver, Robert Kean.

Place of Publication: St. Augustine, FL

Publisher: The author

Date of Publication: 1993

Physical Description: xii, 317 p. ill., maps 29 cm.

Subjects: Landowners - Pennsylvania - Strasburg.; Strasburg (Boro), Pa.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Strasburg.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 STRB W363

Archive

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Collection: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Title: Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection

Object ID: MG0166

Date Range: 1738-1920

Methodist Episcopal Church Armor’s Old Bookstore Articles of agreement Beaver Creek Black Horse Farm Bonds Business records Certificates Charles E. Wentz & Bros. Christ Lutheran Church Cocalico Creek Conestoga Steam Mills Constables Correspondence Court records Farmer’s Bank of Lancaster Farmer’s Hay and

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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

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The Dutch Church : St. Michaels Lutheran, Strasburg, Zion German Reformed (UCC) New Providence

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Author: Eshleman, Wilber J.

Date of Publication: 1985.

Call Number: 285.8 Z79

Author: Eshleman, Wilber J.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1985.

Physical Description: 19, 26 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 397 #1.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 401 #3 [Zion Reformed Church].

Subjects: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.); Zion Reformed Church (Strasburg Township) - History; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 285.8 Z79

Lutheran Church Records: St. Michael's Lutheran Church Strasburg, Lancaster Co. PA: [ChurchChurch records including baptism 1753-1869, confirmations 1785-1812 and 1816-1860 and burials 1816-1869]

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Corporate Author: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.)

Call Number: Drawer 2, sec. 5: #378

Corporate Author: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.)

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.

Notes: Records are in German.; Labeled on box #378.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 397, #1.

Subjects: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Strasburg (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 2, sec. 5: #378

Red Caboose Motel : how it all started

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Date of Publication: 1970?]

Call Number: 647.974 R312

Place of Publication: [Strasburg, Pa

Publisher: The Motel,

Date of Publication: 1970?]

Physical Description: [26] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Red Caboose Motel (Strasburg, Pa.) - History.; Strasburg Rail Road (Strasburg, Pa.); Strasburg (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Amish Country (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 647.974 R312

Zion Reformed Church New Providence, Strasburg Township : records of New Providence

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Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: 285.8 N558

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 26 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 401 #3.; DAR record of births and deaths 1727-1848; baptismal records of First Reformed Church in Pequea 1746-1803 and confirmation records 1771, 1778 and 1779.

Subjects: Zion Reformed Church (Strasburg Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 285.8 N558

Baptismal records of St. Michael's Lutheran Church Strasburg, Pa. : from 1753-1816

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Date of Publication: 1954

Call Number: 284.1 S146

Responsibility: translated and typed by Mr. and Mrs. Luther Heisey.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: the authors,

Date of Publication: 1954

Physical Description: 24 p., 41 p., 12 l : 29 cm.

Notes: Baptisms 1753-1869 with surname index; burials 1816-1869; baptisms 1862-1896; and burials 1861-1895.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 397 #1.

Subjects: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 S146

Baptismal record of the German Reformed Church of New Providence, Pa. from 1760 to 1800

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Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: 285.8 N558g

Responsibility: translated from the Old German script by Ernst Waelder, a native of Hechingen, Germany but now of Lancaster, Pa. (1977).

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 26 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 401 #3.

Subjects: Zion Reformed Church (Strasburg Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Township

Additional Author: Waelder, Ernst

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 285.8 N558g

Strasburg academies

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1928

Interior. Saint Michael's Lutheran church, Strasburg. �STRASBURG ACADEMIES By William Frederic Worner The history of Strasburg village and borough, Lancaster county, Pa., is so intimately associated with educational matters that it would not be com- plete, no matter how carefully written, without a

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1928

Physical Description: [12]-28 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 1 & 2

Subjects: Schools - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Private schools - Pennsylvania - Strasburg; Learned institutions and societies - Pennsylvania - Strasburg

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society.. Volume 32, number 1/2 (1928), p. 12-28Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32

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Pennsylvania gravestone inscriptions : Strasburg, Lancaster County graveyard adjoining Presbyterian Church

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Author: Worner, William Frederic

Call Number: 905.29 GSP v.10

Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic

Physical Description: 61-63 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, v.10 no.1 (March 1927)

Subjects: Strasburg Presbyterian Church (Strasburg, Pa.); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Borough.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.29 GSP v.10

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Chains of titles for some early land owners of the Strasburg Village area : a legal perspective

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo852

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2fde02c9-b19c-4251-98b9-115873451547

Documents

The Dutch Church : St. Michaels Lutheran, Strasburg, Zion German Reformed (UCC) New Providence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16005

Lutheran Church Records: St. Michael's Lutheran Church Strasburg, Lancaster Co. PA: [ChurchChurch records including baptism 1753-1869, confirmations 1785-1812 and 1816-1860 and burials 1816-1869]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16159

Red Caboose Motel : how it all started

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18528

Zion Reformed Church New Providence, Strasburg Township : records of New Providence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1415

Baptismal records of St. Michael's Lutheran Church Strasburg, Pa. : from 1753-1816

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1524

Baptismal record of the German Reformed Church of New Providence, Pa. from 1760 to 1800

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Strasburg academies

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Pennsylvania gravestone inscriptions : Strasburg, Lancaster County graveyard adjoining Presbyterian Church

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