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Collection
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Title
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Object ID
MG0410
Date Range
1691-1963
. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas for Supplies Furnished Frontier Forces. F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. had a contract with the State of Texas to furnish supplies, transportation, etc. to the Frontier Forces from 1870-1872, but had not been paid. Hutchings Printing House, Austin. [1888-1889]. Insert 3
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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.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection 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.
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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Collection
Summy Family Genealogy
Title
Summy Family Genealogy
Object ID
MG0550
Date Range
1692-1997
: The Summy Family Genealogy contains two folders and four binders of published works, research notes, family history, and original documents pertaining to the Summy family (1692-1997). Creator: Summy, John W., 1927-2016. Conditions for Access: No restrictions. Conditions Governing Reproductions
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Collection
Summy Family Genealogy
Title
Summy Family Genealogy
Description
The Summy Family Genealogy contains two folders and four binders of published works, research notes, family history, and original documents pertaining to the Summy family (1692-1997).
Date Range
1692-1997
Year Range From
1692
Year Range To
1997
Date of Accumulation
1692-1997
Creator
Summy, John
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 12
People
Geisey, John
Heistand, Christian
Ramsauer, Deitrich
Schwar, Martin
Sumi, Hans
Sumi, Peter
Summey, Charles Ballard
Summy, John
Summy, John W.
Summy, Peter
Webster, Nancy
Subjects
Genealogy
Letters
Search Terms
Correspondence
Finding aids
Genealogy
Letters
Manuscript groups
Extent
1 box, 2 folders, 4 binders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0550
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Summy Family Genealogy (MG0550), Folder or Binder #, 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.
Other Numbers
MG-550
Classification
MG0550
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, 25 September 2013. Added to database 19 January 2022.
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Collection
Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
Title
Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
Object ID
MG0050
Date Range
1703-1991
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Collection
Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
Title
Eleanor Fulton, Presbyterian Collection
Description
The work of Eleanor Fulton, a professional researcher. Contains information on the Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, including First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Donegal Presbyterian Church. Also, genealogy notes for local families and St. James Episcopal Church.
System of Arrangement
Organized by subject, arranged chronologically.
Date Range
1703-1991
Year Range From
1703
Year Range To
1991
Date of Accumulation
1703-1991
Creator
Fulton, Eleanor
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 02
People
Ashmead, William
Buchanan, James
Fulton, Robert
Woodhull, John
Subjects
Genealogy
Letters
Presbyterian Church
United States--History--War of 1812
Search Terms
Booklets
Correspondence
Diaries
Donegal Presbytery
Ephemera
Genealogy
Letters
Newspaper clippings
Presbyterian Church
War of 1812
Extent
2 boxes, 56 folders, .75 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0050
Location of Originals
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.
Other Numbers
MG-50
Classification
MG0050
Description Level
Fonds
Documents
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The arguments and reports of Sr. Hen. Pollexfen ... in some special cases; by him argued during the time of his practice at the barr. [1669-1685]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21540
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Date of Publication
1702.
Call Number
Book 581 1702
Responsibility
Together with divers decrees in the High Court of Chancery. Upon limitations of trusts of terms for years. The whole printed from the authors original manuscript. Revised and corrected with his own hand. And published with the allowance and approbation of the lord keeper, and all the judges.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Smith,
Date of Publication
1702.
Physical Description
6 preliminary leaves, 250 (i. e. 246), 369-664, [8] pages 33 cm
Notes
Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, A², a², B-Z², Aa-Zz², Aaa²-Rrr¹, Aaaaa-Zzzzz², Aaaaaa-Zzzzzz², 7A-7Z², 8A-8G².
Errors in paging: p. 173-176, 649 and 652 incorrectly numbered 176-179, 652 and 629, respectively; nos. 181-184, 188 omitted, no. 189 duplicated.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 581 as assigned by Yeates.
Printedn and hane-written marginalia.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Remainders (Estates) - Great Britain.
Trusts and trustees - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Remainders (Estates)
Trusts and trustees.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Pollexfen, Henry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Chancery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 581 1702
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The fourth and last part of Modern reports, being a collection of several special cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King & Queen's Bench : in the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the reigns of King William and Queen Mary, and 7th year of King William, and judgments thereupon : with several of the pleadings at large, being carefully examined by the records : and also the number-rolls of most of the other cases : very few of these cases were ever printed before

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20954
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1703.
Alternate Title
Modern reports
Responsibility
carefully collected by a learned hand.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esqrs. for Charles Harper ...,
Date of Publication
1703.
Physical Description
[8], 424, [24] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
"Some books printed for, and sold by Charles Harper ... ": last page.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3H⁴ 3I-3O².
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 128 as assigned by Yeates.
Information struck on title page.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Queen's Bench.
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The law of ejectments, or, A treatise shewing the nature of ejectione firme, the difference between it and trespass, and how to be brought or removed where the lands lie in franchises. ... As also who are good witnesses or not in the trial on ejectment, and what shall be allowed good evidence or not ... Together with the learning of special verdicts at large, relating to titles of land and estates in several rules, and of judgments with their several forms of entries in special cases ... Very necessary for all lawyers, attornies, and other persons, especially at the assises, &c ?

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20997
Date of Publication
1700.
Call Number
Bookk 197 1700
Alternate Title
Treatise shewing the nature of ejectione firme
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Deeve at Bernards Inn Gate in Holbourn,
Date of Publication
1700.
Physical Description
[18], 268, [26] pages ; (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page under struck former owner.
Book number 197 as assigned by Yeates.
With an index.
Pages 202-208 misnumbered 182-187 and 108.
Signatures: pi1 A-T⁸ U⁴.
With a preliminary advertisement leaf.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Subjects
Ejectment - England - Early works to 1800.
Ejectment.
England.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 197 1700
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Modus intrandi placita generalia : the entring clerk's introduction : being a collection of such precedents of declarations, and other pleadings, with process as well mesn as judicial, as are generally used in every days practice : with notes and observations thereupon composed, for the benefit of the students of the common law of England, as also of the attorneys, entring clerks, and sollicitors of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, acquainting them with the rudiments of clerkship, and such general pleadings and process as are used at this day in the courts of record at Westminster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22155
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
Alternate Title
Entring clerk's introduction
Responsibility
by William Brown, Gent., author of Formulae bene placitandi.
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 2 has no ed. statement.
Vol. 1: [24], 406, [34] p.; v. 2: [8], 315, [15] p.
Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck owner.
Book numbers 1024 and 1025 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Pleading - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law)
Pleading.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1024 1702
Book 1025 1703
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A report of divers cases in pleas of the crown, adjudged and determined in the reign of the late King Charles II. [1662-1669] with directions for justices of the peace and others

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21811
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1708.
Call Number
Book 761 1708
Responsibility
Collected by Sir John Kelyng, knt. ... From the original manuscript under his own hand. To which is added, the reports of three modern cases, viz. Armstrong and Lisle; the King and Plumer; the Queen and Mawgridge.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for I. Cleave,
Date of Publication
1708.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 138, [14] pages 29 cm
Notes
"Holt reported the three cases at the end ... of the volume, pp. 89-138"--Wallace's Reporters.
"Formerly cited as 1 Kelyng, as distinguished from W. Kelyng Ch., which was known as 2 Kelyng."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of titlt page.
Book number 761 as assigned by Yeates.
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
Kelyng, John,
Holt, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 761 1708
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Les reports de Sr. Creswell Levinz, : jades un del justices del Common Bank, en trois parts: commencant en le 12 an de Roy Charles II. & fini en le 8 an de son Majesty William III

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21530
Author
Levinz, Creswell,
Date of Publication
1702.
Call Number
Book 578 1702
Book 579 1702
Responsibility
Alloué & apprové per le seignior keeper & per tout les tres-reverend judges de la ley.
Author
Levinz, Creswell,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins esq; for S. Keble ... D. Browne ... T. Benskin ... and J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702.
Physical Description
3 v. : port. ; 31 cm. (fol in 4s)
Notes
Parts 2-3 have special t.p.s. Parts I and II contain King's Bench cases (12 Car. II-31 Car. II); pt. III, cases in the Court of Common Pleas (33 Car. II-8 Will. III).
Includes indexes.
LCHS copy Parts I and II bound together.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 578 and 579 as assigned by Yeates.
Ex Libris note in Latin on back of front cover.
ESTC
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 578 1702
Book 579 1702
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The reports of Sir Bartholomew Shower, knt. of cases adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench ... [1678-1694] With several learned arguments

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21528
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1708-20.
Call Number
Book573 1720
Book 572 1708
Responsibility
With two tables.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for D. Browne,
Date of Publication
1708-20.
Physical Description
2 volumes frontispiece (volumes 2, portrait) 32 cm
Notes
Title varies: v. 2: The second part of the Reports of cases and special arguments, argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench ... By Sir Bartholomew Shower.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 572 and 573 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[pt. 1] Cases adjudg'd in ... in the reign of King William III.--pt. 2. Beginning in Easter term the thirtieth of King Charles the Second, and ending in Easter term the third of King James the Second.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Shower, Bartholomew,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book573 1720
Book 572 1708
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