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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Diffenderffer Family Papers, 1691-1963 Object ID: MG0410 1 box 23 folders .5 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 10 Scope and Content

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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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Le beau-pledeur. A book of entries, containing declarations, informations and other select and approved pleadings: with special verdicts and demurrers, in most actions, real, personal, and mixt, which have been argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster. Together with faithful references to the most authentick printed law-books now extant, where the cases of these entries are reported; and a more copious and useful table than hath been hitherto printed in any book of entries. The whole comprehending the very art and method of good pleading

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21772

Author: Winch, Sir Humphrey,

Date of Publication: 1680.

Call Number: Book 727 1680

Responsibility: By the Reverend Sir Humphrey Winch, knight ...

Author: Winch, Sir Humphrey,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by G. Sawbridge, W. Rawlins, and S. Roycroft, assigns or R. and E. Atkins, for T. Basset

Date of Publication: 1680.

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 1183 (i.e. 1067), [84] pages 36 cm

Notes: Text in Latin.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbaer 727 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Courts.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 727 1680

A book of entries: of declarations and other pleadings general and special, in the most usual actions in the Court of Kings-bench. Also a choice collection of special writs, and their retorns. Together with observations in pleading, instructing the younger clerks in the practice of that court

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20878

Author: Hansard, John.

Date of Publication: 1685.

Call Number: Yeates Book 70 1685

Responsibility: From the original manuscripts in court-hand, collected and drawn by John Hansard ... To which are added, appeals of murder and mayheme, with variety of pleadings therein. Not printed before in any book of entries or pleadings.

Author: Hansard, John.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, for William Crook,

Date of Publication: 1685.

Physical Description: 9 preliminary leaves, 283, [20] pages 32 cm

Notes: Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, AÂ², (a)â´, Â², B-Zâ´, Aa-Nnâ´, Oo-TtÂ².; Error in paging: p. 75-78 incorrectly numbered 67-70.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 70 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Writs - Great Britain.; Pleas of the crown.; Pleading.; Writs.; Great Britain.; Full leather blind tooled (Binding); Gilt title on maroon tab on spine (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 70 1685

A book of special entries of declarations, pleadings, issues, verdicts, judgments, and judicial process : in such actions as are now in use, and have not hitherto been published in any printed book of precedents : together with such notes and observations as do either illustrate or explain the same : as also such parts of pleadings and judicial process which do naturally fall under the division of each distinct title, as necessary and incident thereunto

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20876

Author: Robinson, Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1684.

Call Number: Book 68 1684

Responsibility: collected by the particular direction of Sir Thomas Robinson ...

Author: Robinson, Thomas,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for T. Basset ... and B. Tooke ...,

Date of Publication: 1684.

Physical Description: [4], 479, [37] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: [A]Â² B-3Pâ´ 3Q-4AÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 68 as assigned by Yeates.; Bookplate of Stephen Chambers partially removed with note" Bought by Jasper Yeates on 10 March 1790."; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

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

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 68 1684

Brownlow LatinÃ¨ redivivus : a book of entries : of such declarations, informations, pleas in barr and abatement, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, bills of exception to verdicts, judgments, demurrers, and other parts of pleadings, (now in use) in personal and mixt actions : contained in the first and second parts of the declarations and pleadings of Richard Brownlow

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20867

Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Alternate Title: Book of entries

Responsibility: (unskilfully turned into English, and) printed in the years 1653 and 1654 ; now published in Latin, their original language, with additions of authentick modern precedents, inserted under every title, and a copious table, after the method of Mr. Townsend.

Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns ... and are to be sold by S. Heyrick ... T. and G. Sawbridge ... and M. Gillyflower ...,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Physical Description: [6], 260, 361-506, [46] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² aÂ¹ B-2Kâ´ 2LÂ² 3A-3Sâ´ 3T-4GÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Signature of Witt. Cowper, Dec. 9.92. Pr 14s struck through.; Book number 63 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Wythe, George,; Pollock, Frederick,; Yeates, Jasper,

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21783

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Date of Publication: 1698.

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Responsibility: [1694-1698].

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: A. and J. Churchill,

Date of Publication: 1698.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 224, [2] pages 33 cm

Notes: Reported by Sir Bartholomew Shower.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page beside former owner E. Biddle.; Book number 738 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc - Early works to 1800 - Great Britain; Early works.; Early works to 1800.; Full blind-tolled leather.

Additional Author: Shower, Bartholomew,; Yeates, Jasper,; Biddle, E.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 738 1698

The entring clerk's vade mecum : being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions, especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators, executrices, administratices, and their husbands, in personal actions : also upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c., and such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto : being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks, and attornies in His Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common Pleas, as also to the attornies and practicers of every inferieur court and county-judicature

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22154

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Date of Publication: 1695.

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

Responsibility: collected by William Brown, Gent.

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Nathaniel Ponder, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,

Date of Publication: 1695.

Physical Description: [8], 600, [64] p. 29 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´ 2R-2Uâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number1023 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed., 1994); ESTC

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

Additional Author: Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20864

Author: Vidian, Andrew.

Date of Publication: MDCLXXXIV [1684]

Call Number: Book 61 1684

Responsibility: by Andrew Vidian ...

Author: Vidian, Andrew.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Christopher Wilkinson, Tho. Dring, and Charles Harper, at their shops in Fleet-Street,

Date of Publication: MDCLXXXIV [1684]

Physical Description: [24], 266 [i.e. 268], [20] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² a-eÂ² B-2Lâ´ 2M-2RÂ².; Errors in paging: p. 137-140 omitted, p. 103-104, 133-136 repeated in the numbering; p. 113, 116, 214, 250 and 251 misnumbered 413, 416, 216, 242 and 243 respectively.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 61 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - England; England, civil procedure; Civil procedure.; Criminal procedure.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 61 1684

Maxims and rules of pleading : in actions real, personal and mixt, popular and penal : describing the nature of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoynders, and all other parts of pleading, shewing their validity and defects, and in what cases they are amendable by the court, or remediable by statute-law, or otherwise : likewise, which of the parties in his plea shall first offer the issue, and where special matter may be given in evidence upon the general issue, of demurrers upon evidence, of verdicts, general and special, and of bills of exceptions to the same, of judgments, executions, writs of error and false judgment, and of appeals, indictments, and informations and the pleadings relating thereunto

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22072

Author: Heath, Robert,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIV [1694]

Call Number: Book 884 1694

Responsibility: published from the manuscript of Sir Robert Health ... ; with additions of new matter to euery title, from all the reports since his time.

Author: Heath, Robert,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Abel Roper ...,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIV [1694]

Physical Description: [8], 332, [28] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: Aâ´ B-Zâ¸ 2Aâ´.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 884 as assigned by Yeates.; Bookplate of Arthur Beardmore affixed to back of front cover.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Pleading.; Great Britain.; Early works.; 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 884 1694

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A book of entries: of declarations and other pleadings general and special, in the most usual actions in the Court of Kings-bench. Also a choice collection of special writs, and their retorns. Together with observations in pleading, instructing the younger clerks in the practice of that court

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20878

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20876

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20867

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21783

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22154

The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20864

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22072