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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

perches of land in New Design. 24 April 1765. Folder 4 Deed from Leonard and Mary Stone to the High Dutch Presbyterian Reformed Church in Earl Twp. for 152 acres in Earl Twp. Members and trustees listed are John Dievenderfer Sr., John Dievenderfer Jr., John [Brubaker], John Painter, Christian Sneider Jr

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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.

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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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Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme

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Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1719.

Call Number: Book 887 1719

Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1719.

Physical Description: [28], 422, [42] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Signatures: Aâ¸ aâ´ bÂ² B-2Gâ¸.; Advertisements on first and last leaves.; "Precedents": p. 395-422.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 887 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Husband and wife - Great Britain.; Marriage law - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Husband and wife.; Marriage law.; Great Britain.; 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 887 1719

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

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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

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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

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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 common and statute law of England concerning trials in high-treason, misprision of treason, and in all other crimes and offences relating to the Crown : briefly collected out of the common and statute law-books and trials relating to that subject, alphabetically digested under proper titles, wherein the learning of appeals is at large set forth under the same head : the whole is brought down to the present year 1710, with an exact table

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Author: W. J.

Date of Publication: 1710.

Call Number: Book 436 1710

Responsibility: by W.J., Barrister at law.

Author: W. J.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq. for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1710.

Physical Description: [8], 405, [27] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Notes: "Very useful for all barristers, attorneys, justices of peace, and for all others that have, or may have occasion to be concern'd in such matters."; Signatures: Aâ´ B-2Eâ¸.; Bookseller's advertisements: p. [23-27] at end.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 436 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC

Subjects: Criminal law - England - Early works to 1800.; Criminal procedure - England - Early works to 1800.; Criminal law.; Criminal procedure.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Damaged gilt title on maroon spine label (Binging)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 436 1710

A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 5th ed.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Call Number: Book 886 1719

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries; Treatise of fines

Author: Brown, William,

Uniform Title: Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.

Edition: The 5th ed.,

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Physical Description: 2 volumes ([8], 335, [29]; [8], 400, [22] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: "To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).; Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index); Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].; Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 886 as assigned by Yeates.; LCHS lacks vol 1.; ESTC

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

Additional Author: Nutt, Elizabeth,; Gosling, Robert,; Browne, Daniel,; Walthoe, John,; Tooke, Benjamin,; Mears, W.; Ward, Thomas,; Bickerton, Thomas,; Woodward, Thomas,; Roper, Abel,; Midwinter, Daniel,; Guilford, Francis North,; Powell, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 886 1719

A continuation of the Practical register : in two parts, wherein are contained many rules of court, and also practical cases

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Author: Lilly, John.

Date of Publication: 1710.

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

Alternate Title: Practical register

Responsibility: by John Lilly.

Author: Lilly, John.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer esq. for Charles Harper,

Date of Publication: 1710.

Physical Description: 2 volumes ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 1010 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Court rules - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Court rules.; Criminal procedure.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Law.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

The embassador and his functions

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Author: Wicquefort, Abraham de,

Date of Publication: [1716]

Call Number: Book 712 1716

Responsibility: By Monsieur de Wicquefort. To which is added, an historical discourse, concerning the election of the emperor and the electors. By the same author. Translated into English by Mr. Digby.

Author: Wicquefort, Abraham de,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for B. Lintott

Date of Publication: [1716]

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 570, [28] pages 31 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates'ssignature at top of title page.; Book number 712 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Ambassadors.; Constitutional law - Holy Roman Empire.; Constitutional law.; Europe - Holy Roman Empire.; Ambassadors; Constitutional law - Holy Roman Empire; Full decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding); Blue marbled end papers (Binding)

Additional Author: Digby, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 712 1716

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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

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22075

A continuation of the Practical register : in two parts, wherein are contained many rules of court, and also practical cases

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22146

The embassador and his functions

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