The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
Located on the Lancaster and Columbia turnpike road.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Myers, George Bolman, John H. Hugendobler, Jacob Gamber, David Weidler, D. W. Witmer, H. A. Hougendobler, [signature in German], John R. Albright, John Kessler, J. M. Culp, John Develin, A. K. Rohrer.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Jacob Myers, Jacob Gamber, Jacob M. Grider, John H. Hougendobler, Jacob Will, John Fridy, Jacob Klug, John M. Grider, D. W. Witmer, A. M. Cassidy, George Bolman, D. H. Weidler, John Develin.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of Petition: Jacob Myers, A. M. Cassidy, John Develin, Christian W. Leib, Jacob Wile, Jacob Gamber, Henry Neff, David H. Weidler, John W. Berntheisel, Peter Schalck, A. K. Rohrer, D. W. Witmer, John H. Hougendobler.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: George Bolman, J. M. Culp, John Develin, Henry S. Snyder, John R. Albright, Henry Neff, Michael Sneath, Christian Musselman, Jacob Will, A. K. Rohrer, John Fridy, H. A. Hougendobler.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: [ ] Garber, George Bolmar, Christian Musselman, John Devlin, John R. Albright, Abraham Will, G. M. Culp, Jacob Will, D. W. Witmer, A. K. Rohrer, H. B. Klugh, J. C. Clair.
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Signers of petition: Jacob Harlacher, John Kauffman, John Habecker, A. K. Rohrer, Michael Eshbach, J. M. Culp, John Develin, John Bartel, Andrew Metzger, John Fridy, Henry May, Jacob C. Clair, D. W. Winter, Jacob Klug.
1 item, 1 piece
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Located on the turnpike road leading from Lancaster to Columbia.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Klug, William Gabel, Michael Eshbach, H. B. Klugh, John Allen, J. Harlacher, John Develin, [J. M. Culp], John Martin, Jacob Will, D. W. Witmer, John Fridy, A. K. Rohrer.
1 item, 1 piece
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