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.
Pennsylvania Day program at Antietam, Maryland, Antietam Battlefield Commission of Pennsylvania
Description
Program for Pennsylvania Day at Antietam, Maryland dated Saturday, September 17, 1904. The Antietam Battlefield Commission of Pennsylvania had a dedication ceremony in honor of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the position of thirteen Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle during the Civil War. The program details which monuments would be dedicated, the timeline of events for the event, and who would be involved in the ceremony. The national anthem, "America," is written on the back of the program.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2021.030
Classification
MG0828
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Cataloged by Richard C. Wiggin prior to donation. Added to database 07/20/2022.
"Governor of Pennsylvania (1903-1907) tells about his career as a Philadelphia judge and exonerates himself from the Capitol scandals that plagued his administration." [from ExploreHistory.com]
Life of Christopher Dock.--The Schul-Ordnung "School Management".--Translation of the Schul-Ordnung.--Geisliches Magazien; four numbers.--Translation of the Geistliches Magazien.--Schriften, with translation.--Hymns, with translation.
Summary
Christopher Dock emigrated to the American colonies sometime before 1714. He was a school teacher and farmer in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He introduced teaching methods that emphasized persuasion, discussion, and positive peer pressure.This was a departure from the more stringent methods in use.
The Englishman's right : a dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman, plainly setting forth I. The antiquity, II. The excellent designed use, III. The office and just privileges of juries by the law of England
"This treatise has passed through many editions. It appeared first in the year 1680 ... and is now presented to the public at least for the eighth time. ...": Advertisement to the reader, p. [1], 2nd group of paging.
Signatures: [A]ⴠB-EⶠF².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 445 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
(cont) Newspaper clipping from the Daily local news, West Chester, Pa., Friday, Oct. 5, 1877 about the reunion of the descendants of Heinrich and Eva Pannebäcker.
Contains also: Painting by H. Pennebaker; Announcement of reunion of the descendants of Heinrich and Eve Pannebäcker on Oct. 4, 1877; Program of exercises at reunion; Letter of acknowledgement from S.W. Pennypacker to Miss Susan B. Pennebaker for the right of descendants of Hendrick Pannebecker to membership in the Colonial Dames (dated 1906); Letter, dated 1907 from Samuel W. Pennypacker to Miss Pennebaker informing her that a copy of paper about Hendrick Pennebaker would be sent to her; A printed notice dated September 28, 1777 announcing congratulation of General Washington for the success of the army against General Burgoyne; Letter dated July 10, 1865, by C.S. Pennebaker to the Medical director, Washington, D.C., inquiring about Col. Pennebaker, supposed to have been wounded in the charge on Fort Fisher, and reply on back;
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