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
Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers' certificate. There is also a blank book with paper made at Ephrata Cloister in 1796.
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Credit
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Classification
MG0071
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 October 2018.
This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.
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.
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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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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.
Deed from Elizabeth Wartnaby of Philadelphia to James Gibbons for 1,000 acres of land situated on the Conestoga Creek in Chester County. Signed 20 September 1727. Original seal still on document.
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Accession Number
2021.008
Other Numbers
MG-846
Other Number
MG-846, Folder 20
Classification
MG0846
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Cataloged by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 28 July 2021.
The Alice E. Brown Family Papers contain genealogy and family records, deeds, land drafts, ads and ephemera for local businesses, bonds, estate papers, wills, and personal papers. Some of the deeds and maps are for property also owned by the Coates and Pownall families. Alice's father was a race horse breeder and the collection contains certificates from the American Trotting Register for some of his horses.
Admin/Biographical History
"Alice E. Brown, age 93, of Christiana, PA passed away on Monday, March 15, 2010 at Tel Hai Retirement Community. She was born in Salisbury Twp., daughter of the late John H. & Lizzie F. Brown. She was a member of Latta Memorial Presbyterian Church of Christiana. Alice graduated from the Millersville Normal School in 1934. She was a School Teacher for 7 years at the former Simmontown one-room schoolhouse. She also worked for Dr. Beacher of Gap. She was known as a wonderful artist. She was preceded in death by 4 siblings: Norris, Phares, Lela, and Leah Brown. She was the last of her immediate family. Funeral service will take place from the Shivery Funeral Home, 111 Elizabeth Street, Christiana, PA on Wednesday, March 17th, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Jane DeFord officiating. Interment will be in the Sadsbury Friends Burial Grounds, Gap, PA."
From the obituary of Alice E. Brown, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 16 March 2010.
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Accession Number
2010.MG0583
Other Numbers
MG-583
Classification
MG0583
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed by RW, February 2010; finding aid typed by SH, July 2013. Added to database 26 December 2021.
The Summy Family Genealogy contains two folders and four binders of published works, research notes, family history, and original documents pertaining to the Summy family (1692-1997).
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Other Numbers
MG-550
Classification
MG0550
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, 25 September 2013. Added to database 19 January 2022.
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
Reports of cases decreed in the High Court of Chancery : during the time Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, was Lord Chancellor. In many of which decrees he was afflicted by some of the judges of the common law ... With proper tables ; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters therein contained
[London] : For R. Gosling at the Middle Temple Gate ; W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar, and J. Hooke at the Flower de Luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street
Publisher
In the Savoy : Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1725.
Physical Description
[2], iv, [4], 480, [22] pages ; 31 cm (fol.)
Notes
Preface subscribed W.N.
Continued from title page: ... All which cases are truly stated upon pleadings, and the arguments on each side clearly reported; together with the opinions of those judges, who sate as assistants to the chancellor before he pronounced his decrees. To which are added marginal notes, shewing where those decrees are founded on the civil law, and agree therewith. None of these cases ever printed before, and all of them carefully collected by a gentleman who attended the said court, and was himself of counselin the said cases.
Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot, J. Tonson, R. Gosling, W. & J. Innys, J. Osborn & T. Longman, R. Robinson, T. Woodward, F. Clay, B. Motte, A. Ward, T. Wotton, & executorum Richardi Sare,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVI. [1726]
Physical Description
3 v. in 6 pts. : ill., port. ; 40 cm (fol.)
Notes
Each vol. in 2 pts.
Vol. 2 imprint statement begins: Londini : Typis S. Palmer, impensis J. Walthoe ...
Vol. 3 imprint statement begins: London : Printed by T. Wood for J. Walthoe ...
Tail-pieces.
Part of vol. 1 printed in red and black.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 720 as assigned by Yeates.
Book plate of Bowater Vernon of Hanbury Hall in the Counder of Worester. on back of title pages of vol. 1.
ESTC,
Contents
Vol. 1. De anno civili veteris ecclesiae, seu Reipublicae Judaicae, dissertatio. De jure naturali & gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum. De synedriis & praefecturis juridicis veterum ebraeorum -- v. 2. De successionibus in bona defunctorum & de successionibus in pontificatum Ebraeorum. De diis Syris. Eutychii ecclesiae suae origines. Uxor Ebraica. Analecta Anglo-Britannica. Janus Anglorum. Dissertatio ad Fletam. Judicium de decem scriptoribus Anglicanis. Mare clausum. Vindiciae de scriptione maris clausi. Marmora Arundelliana. Notae in eadmerum. Epistolae & poemata -- v. 3. England's Epinomis. Original of duels. Titles of honour. History of tythes, with the answers to Sempill, Tilseley, and a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. Of the passage touching the number 666. Of Calvin's judgment on the Revelations. Of the birth-day of our Savior. Of his purpose and end in writing the History of tythes. Of the Jews sometimes living in England. Discourse of the office of Lord Chancellor. Privilege of the baronage of England. Judicature in Parliament. Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments. Letter to Mr. August. Vincent, rouge-croix, concerning his discovery of errors. Arguments concerning the baronies of Grey and Ruthen. Notes upon Drayton's Polyolbion, Fortescue de laudibus, etc. and Hengham's summa, &c. Speeches in the House of Lords and Commons. Table talk.
The reports of that reverend and learned judge, the Right Honourable Sr. Henry Hobart Knight and baronet, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas
A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads
A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c
The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
Les termes de la ley : or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained
Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words /
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXI [1721].
Physical Description
[4], 592 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Anonymous. By John Rastell. Possibly translated by John Rastell's son William.
First published in 1527 as "Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum."
Signatures: [A]² B-2Pâ¸.
Copy 2 has the initials L. T. K, 1774 at top of title page and signature of Jno. Yeates on back of front cover, and on front leaf and inscription "Jrai Rddai moddyybiy"; Binding is full blind-tooled decorated leather.
Jasper Yeates' Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 832 on both copies as asssigned by Yeates.
The infants lawyer : or, The law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges ; their several ages for divers purposes ; guardians and procheim amy, as to suits and defences by them ; actions brought by and against them, with the manner of declarations and pleadings ; fines and recoveries, and other matters of record suffered or acknowledged by them, how reversable ; conveyances and specialties, how bound by them or not ; contracts, promises, &c
A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant : and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post, with ample and copious instructions on 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
