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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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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

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

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 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

Lex vadiorum : the law of mortgages, wherein is treated the nature of mortgages, and the several sorts of proviso's in the same deed, or by deed absolute : defeazance, demise and redemise, or by covenant, and otherwise : with special clauses, conditions, and covenants, explained and illustrated by many adjudged cases at common law, and by presidents : likewise of the payments of the mortgage-money, by whom and to whom, and several cases and rules of tender : also of assignments of mortgages, and the manner of assignees transferring, accounting, &c. : with proper and well-pen'd presidents, according to the circumstances of cases : and further, of the equity of redemption and the nature of it, and how it is governed by the rules of equity : and of releases of equity of redemption and how transferrable or extinguishable : with the niceties of buying in precedent incumbrances : and several other matters and cases adjudged in the High Court of Chancery (with presidents of bills, answers, pleas) &c. : to which are added several cases of pawns and pledges, adjudged at common law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21134

Author: Carter, Samuel

Date of Publication: MDCCVI [1706]

Call Number: Book 433 1709

Alternate Title: Law of mortgages

Author: Carter, Samuel

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esqs. for M. Wotton ... and F. Cogan ...,

Date of Publication: MDCCVI [1706]

Physical Description: [16], 223, [25] p. ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: By Samuel Carter.; Signatures: A-Qâ¸ Râ´.; Includes index.; Bookseller's advertisement: p. [25] at end.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 433 as assigned by Yeates.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,; English short title catalogue,

Subjects: Mortgages - England - Early works to 1800.; Mortgages.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 433 1709

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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

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

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