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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 Folder 21 J. P. McCaskey Insert 1 Photocopy of newspaper article about the reading of Harold F. Diffenderffer’s paper about J. P. McCaskey at the Lancaster County Historical Society. “’Jack’s Boys’ Never Forget,” Daily Intelligencer Journal
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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
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Title
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Object ID
MG0061
Date Range
1670-1985
Collection
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Title
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Description
Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
Date Range
1670-1985
Creation Date
mid-20th century-1985
Year Range From
1670
Year Range To
1985
Creator
Dyke, Samuel Eugene, 1900-1985
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 02
People
Armstrong, John
Atherton, Cornelius
Atkins, Wyatt
Beck, John Philip
Berry, Peter
Breitenhard, Johann Christoph
Brown, Parker B.
Buchele, William M.
Corridon, Raymond R.
Dobson, Thomas
Dubbs, Jacob
Dyke, Samuel Eugene
Fetter, George
Feder, George
Fondersmith, John
Grancsay, Steven V.
Grove, S.
Grubb, Peter
Hawkins, Henry
Henry, William
Hoff, H. Bare
Kendig, Joe, Jr.
Kuntz, Jacob
Kuntz, Peter
Landis, George
Landis, Henry
Lehn, Joseph
Lincoln, Abraham
Magee, D. F.
Manger, Henry
Meyhardt, Peter
Pennypacker, A. J.
Sprecher, Peter
Walker, Joseph E.
Yeates, Jasper
Subjects
Armstrong Cork Company
Gunsmiths
Kentucky rifle
Cabinetmakers
Clocks and watches
Search Terms
Armstrong Cork Company
Booklets
Cabinetmakers
Clocks and watches
Conrad Weiser State Park
Correspondence
Flintlock Rifles
Gunsmiths
Halbach Pistols
Harpers Ferry Arsenal and Armory
Hopewell Forge
Kentucky Match Rifle
Kentucky rifles
Kentucky Rifle Association
Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee
Malsh Pistols
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pamphlets
Pennsylvania Rifles
Rotary International
Pennsylvania Deithsch Eck
World War II
Extent
6 boxes, 113 folders, 4.25 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0061
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Photograph Collection
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
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers (MG-61), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
Other Numbers
MG-61
Classification
MG0061
Description Level
Fonds
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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
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, A², (a)⁴, ², B-Z⁴, Aa-Nn⁴, Oo-Tt².
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
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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Edition
Le 2. ed.
Date of Publication
1688.
Call Number
Yeates Book 115 1688
Responsibility
per Sir Fra. Moore chivalier [1512-1621]. Imprime & publie per l'original jadis remainant en les maines de Sir Gefrey Palmer chevalier & bar.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Edition
Le 2. ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Pawlet, and are to be sold by Mat. Wotton,
Date of Publication
1688.
Physical Description
9 preliminary leaves, 918, [73] pages frontispiece (portrait) 31 cm
Notes
Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, a-d², A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Zzz⁴, Aaaa-Zzzz⁴, Aaaaa-Zzzzz⁴, 6A-6S².
Cases in the courts of King's bench, Common pleas, Exchequer, and Chancery. cf. Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 115 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal notes.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Moore, Francis,
Yeates, Jasper,
Palmer, Gefrey,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 115 1688
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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
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[Les reports des divers select matters & resolutions des reverend judges & sages del ley : touchant & concernant mults principal points occurrent estre debate per eux: en le several reignes de les tres-hault & excellent princes, le roys Hen. 8 & Edw. 6 & le roignes Mar. & Eliz

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20943
Author
Dyer, James,
Date of Publication
[MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Call Number
Book 119 1688
Responsibility
collect & report per tres-reverend judge, Sr. Jaques Dyer chivaler ; jades chief justice del Common Bank en le temps du roigne Elizabeth. A que est novelment addes mult mille de references al plusors livers del common ley cybien auncient come modern ovesq ; grand nombre de cases ne unques devant imprimeè. Ove troice tables perfaicts, le primer conteinant le principal matter in le dit liure. Le second le nosmes des touts le cases contenus en mesme. Le tierce le nosmes des cases novelment add en le margent del liure].
Author
Dyer, James,
Uniform Title
Ascuns novel cases
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
[Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street],
Date of Publication
[MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Physical Description
[10], 62, [1], 65-377, [27] leaves : fol
Notes
Edited by Sir George Treby.
With an index.
Originally published as: Ascuns novel cases.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 119 as assigned by Yeates.
Printed marginal notes.
ESTC,
Wing
Subjects
England and Wales. - Sovereign (1547-1553 : Edward VI)
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Treby, George,
Roycroft, Samuel,
Flesher, Miles,
Keble, Samuel,
Rawlins, William,
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 119 1688
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Modern reports: or, Select cases, Kings bench, Chancery, Common-pleas, and Exchequer since the restauration of His Majesty King charles II

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20951
Date of Publication
1682.
Call Number
Book 125 1682
Alternate Title
Select cases, Kings bench
Responsibility
Collected by a careful hand.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and S. Heyrick,
Date of Publication
1682.
Physical Description
5 preliminary leaves, 314, [22] pages
Notes
By Anthony colquitt.
Wing C5414.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates' signature at top of title page
Book number 125 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal notes.
Information struck on both flleleaves and on title page.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Colquitt, Anthony.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
England and Wales. Court of Chancery.
England and Wales. Court of Exchequer.
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 125 1682
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The office of the clerk of assize : containing the form and method of the proceedings at the Assizes and General Gaol-Delivery as also on the crown and nisi prius side : together with The office of the clerk of the peace : shewing the true manner and form of the proceedings at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace : wih divers forms of presentments and other precedents at assizes and sessions : with a table of fees thereunto belonging

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21177
Date of Publication
1682.
Call Number
Book 449 1682
Alternate Title
Office of the clerk of the peace
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Twyford,
Date of Publication
1682.
Physical Description
[6], 254, [4] pages ; (8vo)
Notes
The office of the clerk of the peace has separate t.p. with imprint: London : Printed by S. Roycroft for Henry Twyford, 1681 (p. [83]-254).
Library copy lacks first title page.
Yeates's signatureat top of first page next to struck signature of Wm A. Johnston.
Book number 449 as assigned by Yeates.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Wing,
Subjects
England and Wales. - Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery.
England and Wales. - Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)
Criminal procedure - England.
Nisi prius.
Criminal procedure.
England.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Johnston, William A.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 449 1682
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Reports and cases of law: argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster, in the times of the late Queen Elizabeth, and King James. In four parts. The second impression, carefully corrected, with the addition of many thousand of references, never before printed. Collecte by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard, Esquire, then of the honourable Society of Grays-Inn. Published by William Hughes of Grays-Inn, Esquire. With alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matter contained in each part

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20944
Author
Leonard, William.
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXVII. [1687]
Call Number
Book 121 1686
Book 120 1687
Author
Leonard, William.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, and Miles Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires. For H. Twyford, H. Herringman, T. Basset, R. Chiswell, B. Griffin, C. Harper, T. Sawbridge, J. Place, and S. Keble,
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXVII. [1687]
Physical Description
[12], 336, [16], 226, [18], 279, [61], 252, [12] p. ; (fol.)
Notes
With initial imprimatur leaf ([A]1v) signed and dated: Febr. 20. 1685/6. Edward Herbert.
Parts 2-4 each have separate dated title page (part 3 dated 1686), pagination and register. Imprints vary slightly, lacking various printers' and publishers' names.
Leaf ²2G4 is blank.
Includes indicies.
Signatures: [A]² a-b² B-2X⁴; ²A-2G⁴; ³A⁶ B-2O⁴ chi² 2R-3C²; ⁴A-2L⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page above struck signature of previous owner.
Printed marginal notes.
Four parts bound in two volumes.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Hughes, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 121 1686
Book 120 1687
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Reports d'ascuns cases (qui ont evenus aux temps du roy Henry le Septiême de tres heureuse memoire, & du tres illustre roy Henry le Huitiesme, & ne sont comprises deins les livres des terms & ans demesmes les roys) [1496-1531]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20919
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
La 3. ed.
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXVIII [1688]
Call Number
Bookk 101 1688
Responsibility
Seligès hors des papieres de Robert Keilwey esq; par Jean Croke ... Ovesque les reports d'ascuns cases prises per le reverend juge Guilleaume Dallison un des justices del Bank le roy, au temps de la reyne Elizabeth & per Guilleaume Bendloe serjeant al ley au temps de la mesme royne; touchants la construction de divers acts de Parliament par equitè. Aver [sic] une table des principales matieres.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Uniform Title
Reports.
Edition
La 3. ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Charles Harper, William Crooke, and Richard Tonson,
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXVIII [1688]
Physical Description
8 preliminary leaves, 215 leaves, [25] pages 32 cm
Notes
Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, a-c², A-Z⁶, Aa-Nn⁶, Oo-Qq⁴.
"Cases reported by Justice Dallison and ... William Bendloes ... are different from the cases of 'Benloe & Dallison', but are identical with those which were printed in the 1609 edition of Ashe's Tables to the year books."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Reports of cases in the courts of King's bench and Common pleas. cf. Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at tope of title page.
Book number 101 as assigned by Yeates.
Marginal notes in English.
Handwritten at top of title page: "Ce Lievre etois achete par Joseph Flabode? Execuboribus de Monsieur Jlyvow? ?
"The books to which ... references are made": verso of 3d prelim. leaf.
Wing,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Keilway, Robert,
Croke, John,
Dalison, William,
Bendlowes, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 101 1688
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