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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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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, AÂ², aÂ², B-ZÂ², Aa-ZzÂ², AaaÂ²-RrrÂ¹, Aaaaa-ZzzzzÂ², Aaaaaa-ZzzzzzÂ², 7A-7ZÂ², 8A-8GÂ².; 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

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

De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21140

Author: Hale, Matthew,

Date of Publication: 1700.

Call Number: Book 441 1700

Responsibility: by Sir Matthew Hale.

Author: Hale, Matthew,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for S.S. and are to be sold at the corner of Gutter-lane in Cheapside,

Date of Publication: 1700.

Physical Description: [10], 104 pages, 1 folded leaf ; 18 cm (8vo)

Notes: Chapter 11 of the author's "The history and analysis of the common law of England," which was published in 1713.; The folded leaf has "A scheme of pedigrees: and also the degrees of parentage and consanguinity."; Another ed. was published in this same year by R. Battersby.; Includes advertisement on p. [2].; "This treatise I think may be truly said to be PrimÃ¦ Impressionis" ... p. [8].; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 441 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing

Subjects: Inheritance and succession - Great Britain.; Kinship.; Land tenure - Great Britain.; Law - Great Britain - Sources.; Inheritance and succession.; Land tenure.; Law.; Great Britain.; Sources.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 441 1700

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 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]â´ B-3Hâ´ 3I-3OÂ².; 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.

The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21146

Date of Publication: 1708.

Call Number: Book 446 1700

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Arthur Collins ... and Sam. Butler ...

Date of Publication: 1708.

Physical Description: [16], 120, [8] pages 17 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page with two struck former owners.; Book number 446 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Gambling - Great Britain.; Gambling.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 446 1700

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-Tâ¸ Uâ´.; 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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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

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

De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21140

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20954

The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21146

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20997