The Museum Library

The Chapel Library at the Esperance Historical Society is a unique collection of books, documents, and other media accumulated by members of the Society over many years.

The library includes special collections featuring local authors, Methodist History, Agricultural Newspapers, The Anti-Rent War, Civil War including much on the US Colored Troops, Business Directories, and gazetteers. In addition, the library has a large genealogical section featuring church records, cemetery records, family histories, and census records. The collection includes a large Schoharie County and NYS History section. One of the special collections is the Kniskern Family Papers, Johann Peter Kniskern was a Palatine immigrant whose name was given to Kniskern’s Dorf, a German farming community, the earliest European settlement in the Town. Featured among many rare documents and letters is the 1729 survey of Kniskern’s Dorf on display.

Visitors can watch a short video presentation that will acquaint the visitor with the history of the area and the creation of the Chapel Library.

Title Author Date Type
“There Shall be a Court of Apeals...” 1997 4th reprint LH
10,000 Vital Records of Western New York 1777-1834 Fred Q. Bowman 1987
10,000 Vital Records of Western New York 1809-1850 Fred Q. Bowman 1985
10,000 Vital Records of Western New York 1813-1850 Fred Q. Bowman 1986
100 Year History of the New York State Grange 1873-1973 L. Ray Alexander (State Grange Historian) 1973 LH
1001 Things Everyone Should know about African American History Jeffrey C. Stewart 1996 SPAA
14th Annual Founders Day, Sharon Springs, NY, 1993 Coreen Van Arsdal, comp. 1993 LH
150th Anniversary of the Duanesburg and Florida Baptist Church 1800-1950 LH
150th Anniversary of the Organization of Saint John's Reformed Church 1920 LH
150th Anniversary The Reformed presbyterian Cvhurch Duanesburg, NY LH
15th Annual Founders Day, Sharon Springs, NY, 1994 Coreen Van Arsdal, comp. 1994 LH
1713-1882 History of Schoharie County, NY William E. Roscoe 1882 LH
1769 Survey map of property owned by Johannes Mirakle, Lots 10 - 18 MAP
1785 Map of Kniskerns Dorf by Johannes Lawyer, Jr. MAP
1819 Resurvey of the 1726 Morris and Coeyman Patent MAP
1842-1929-1979 50 Years of Guided Tours LH
1860 Webster's Calendar or Albany Almanac 1860 ALM
1966 (7-go-on-8) Ruth Moore Dyer 2018 LH
200 Years of Church, Discipleship: A History of the Berne-Beaverdam Reformed Churches 1765-1965 Rev. John H. Meyer
200 Years of Unitged Methodism An illustrated History John G. McEllhenney 1984 SPCH
200th Anniversary Commemorative Histgory 1797-1997 Kathleen Cooke with Contributers 1997 LH
200th Anniversary Commemorative History Kathleen Cooke 1997 LH
200th Anniversary of the Cambridge – Ashgrove Methodist Episcopal Church Kenneth A. Gottry 1970 LH
200th Anniversary of the Town of Duanesburg Town of Duanesburg 1965 LH
24th AnnualReport of the Ionspectors and Suerintendent of the Albany Peniteniary 1872-3 LH
250 Years Fox Creek Settlement Remembered Fox Creek Settlement Committee 1990 LH
300 Years of Chairs from Schenectady Area Collections Schenectady County Historical Society 1973 LH
3rd Regiment Tryon County Militia Morrison, James F. MIL
50 Views of Schoharie County - A slection of my folk paintings John Wilkinson 2003 LH
8,000 More Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1804 - 1850 Fred Q. Bowman 1991
A Revolutionary Conservative, James Duane of New York Edward P. Alexander 1938 B
A Baker's Dozen: The Historic Markers of the Town of Charleston, Montgomery County, NY Lorraine R. Whiting 2007 LH
A Bibliography of New York State Communities Harold Nestler 1988 LH
A Bibliography of Newspapers in Fourteen New York Counties Sylvia G. Faibisoff Wendell Tripp 1978 Reprint LH
A Brief and informal History of Rensselaerville, NY Katherine Huyck Elmore 1978 Reprint LH
A Brief History of Money and Banks in Schenedtady 1798-1948 Betsy Starr Kelly 1948 LH
A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom and of Jesse Johnson GEN
A Brief History of Zion Lutheran Church of Seward, NY 1889-1939 1939 LH
A Bright New Story on Tim Murphy Jean Webb Williams LH
A Bunch of Flowers Fred Lape 1954 SPLA
A Census of Pensions for Revolutionary or Military Services with Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence 1989 MIL
A Centennial Celebration; Collections from the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY Gilbert T. Vincent 1999 LH
A Century in the Comptroller's Office 1797-1897 James A. Roberts LH
A Century of Communion with Christ 1844-1944 LH
A Century of Electricity TC Mendenhall 1890 NF
A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York Newspaper Obituaries, 1808-1875 Gertrude Audrey Barber
A Collection of Articles, Letters, Indicies, Notes, Ledgers, Diaries, Interviews, Census Records and Misc. Information about Esperance, New York. Kenneth Jones, comp. LH
A Commemorative Booklet – Delaware Annual Conference United Methodist Church Peninsula Annual Conference Commission on Archives & History Delaware Conference History Committee 1990 SPCH
A Compenddious History of American Methodism Abel Stevens 1867 SPCH
A Descriptive Geography of New York State L. N. Beebe 1887 LH
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