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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org 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

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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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Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme

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Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1719.

Call Number: Book 887 1719

Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1719.

Physical Description: [28], 422, [42] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Signatures: Aâ¸ aâ´ bÂ² B-2Gâ¸.; Advertisements on first and last leaves.; "Precedents": p. 395-422.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 887 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Husband and wife - Great Britain.; Marriage law - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Husband and wife.; Marriage 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 887 1719

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

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Author: Rastell, William,

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Call Number: Book 59 1770

Responsibility: by William Rastell, Esq.

Author: Rastell, William,

Uniform Title: Colleccion of entrees

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge ... [and 13 others],

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Physical Description: [4], 704 leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [par.]â´ A-4Tâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 59 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 59 1770

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

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Author: Rastell, William,

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Responsibility: by William Rastell, Esq.

Author: Rastell, William,

Uniform Title: Colleccion of entrees

Edition: The last edition carefully corrected.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge ... [and 13 others],

Date of Publication: MDCLXX [1670]

Physical Description: [4], 704 leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [par.]â´ A-4Tâ¸.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Corporate Author: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions 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 5th ed.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Call Number: Book 886 1719

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries; Treatise of fines

Author: Brown, William,

Uniform Title: Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.

Edition: The 5th ed.,

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Physical Description: 2 volumes ([8], 335, [29]; [8], 400, [22] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: "To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).; Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index); Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].; Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 886 as assigned by Yeates.; LCHS lacks vol 1.; ESTC

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

Additional Author: Nutt, Elizabeth,; Gosling, Robert,; Browne, Daniel,; Walthoe, John,; Tooke, Benjamin,; Mears, W.; Ward, Thomas,; Bickerton, Thomas,; Woodward, Thomas,; Roper, Abel,; Midwinter, Daniel,; Guilford, Francis North,; Powell, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 886 1719

A continuation of the Practical register : in two parts, wherein are contained many rules of court, and also practical cases

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Author: Lilly, John.

Date of Publication: 1710.

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

Alternate Title: Practical register

Responsibility: by John Lilly.

Author: Lilly, John.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer esq. for Charles Harper,

Date of Publication: 1710.

Physical Description: 2 volumes ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 1010 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Court rules - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Court rules.; Criminal procedure.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Law.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

The countrey justice : containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions, gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm

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Author: Dalton, Michael,

Date of Publication: 1677.

Call Number: Book 753 1677

Responsibility: by Michael Dalton ... ; to which is now added, the duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions, an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes relating thereunto, a large table of the principal matters herein contained, with two other tables, one of the chapters in this book and the other of such acts of Parliament as concern the office of a justice of peace.

Author: Dalton, Michael,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by G. Sawbridge, T. Roycroft and W. Rawlins, assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires, and are to be sold by H. Twyford ... [and 14 others],

Date of Publication: 1677.

Physical Description: [16], 416, 437-555, [25] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: [superscript pi]A-Bâ´ B-2Mâ¶ 2Nâ´ 3A-3Kâ¶ 3L-3MÂ² a-dÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top to title page by struck signatures of former owners.; Book number 753 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Justices of the peace - Great Britain.; Justices of the peace.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leathr (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 753 1677

Instructor clericalis

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Author: R. G.

Edition: [1st-5th eds.].

Date of Publication: 1706-1715.

Call Number: Book 1026 1721; Book 1027 1715; Book 1028 1713; Bookk 1029 1717; Book 1031 1713; Book 1030 1713

Author: R. G.

Edition: [1st-5th eds.].

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy : For

Publisher: Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq ; Thomas Bever, at the Hand and Star within Temple Bar.,

Date of Publication: 1706-1715.

Physical Description: 5 volumes in 6 ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: Mixed set: v.1, 6h ed., 1721; v.2, 4th ed., 1715; v.3, 3d ed., 1713; v.4, 2nd ed., 1717; v.5:1, [1st] ed., 1713; v.5:2, [1st] ed., 1713; v.6 ("Sixth part" also called "Vol. VII"), [1st] ed., 1714. -- Imprint taken from v.1; publisher varies.; Subtitle varies: v.1: Directing clerks both in the court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas: in the abbreviation and contraction of words ... in the filling up and suing out writs of first process, in drawing declarations, making up issues, ingrossing records, entring[sic] judgments, and suing out executions: also pleas and demurrers, &c. ... ; v.2: Being a collection of choice and usual precedents for declarations in the King's-Bench and Common Pleas ... ; v.3: Being a collection of choice and useful precedents for pleadings ... ; vols.4-5: Being a continuance of bars ("barrs" v.4) and other pleadings ....; On t-ps of v.3-5: by R.G., a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; in v.1, "To the reader" subscribed: R.G.; on t.p. v.2: By the author of the first part.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 1026-1031 as asssigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled 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.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1026 1721; Book 1027 1715; Book 1028 1713; Bookk 1029 1717; Book 1031 1713; Book 1030 1713

Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster

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Author: Kitchin, John.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Date of Publication: 1675.

Call Number: Book 437 1675

Alternate Title: Jurisdictions; Lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn; Brevia selecta, or, Choice writs

Responsibility: written by the methodically learned John Kitchin ... ; to which is also added, Brevia selecta ... by Richard Antrobus and Thomas Impey ...

Author: Kitchin, John.

Uniform Title: Court leete et court baron.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Hen. Twyford ... and Sam. Herrick ...,

Date of Publication: 1675.

Physical Description: [4], 581, [23], 122, [6] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Notes: "The return of writs newly corrected": pages 514-581.; Signatures: AÂ² B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´, chiÂ² Â²A-Hâ¸.; Leaf 2Q4 is blank.; Includes index.; LC copy imperfect: blank leaf 2Q4 wanting.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page adjacent to struck signature of former owner.; Book number 437 as assinged by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: England and Wales. - Marshalsea Court.; Courts baron and courts leet - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Writs - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Courts baron and courts leet.; Pleading.; Real property.; Writs.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Impey, Thomas.; Antrobus, Richard.; Kitchin, John.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 437 1675

The law of covenants. A treatise, explaining the nature and rules of the several sorts of covenants

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Author: Author of The law of ejectments.

Date of Publication: 1711.

Call Number: Book 889 1711

Responsibility: By the author of The law of ejectments.

Author: Author of The law of ejectments.

Place of Publication: [London] in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of E. Sayer, for S. Butler,

Date of Publication: 1711.

Physical Description: 18 preliminary leaves, 512 (i.e. 496), [26] pages 20 cm

Notes: Paged irregularly; p. 352-496 erroneously numbered 368-512.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 889 as assigned by Yeaes.

Subjects: Covenants - Great Britain.; Covenants.; 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 889 1711

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22076

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20861

A collection of entries : of declarations, barres, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, judgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoynes, and divers other matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20862

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22075

A continuation of the Practical register : in two parts, wherein are contained many rules of court, and also practical cases

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22146

The countrey justice : containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions, gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21805

Instructor clericalis

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22158

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21137

The law of covenants. A treatise, explaining the nature and rules of the several sorts of covenants

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22078