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
Faith and Furrow: An Exhibit of Mennonite Rural Life Steven K. Friesen 1987 NF
Fallen Founder the Life of Aaron Burr Nancy Isenberg 2007 B
Farm Bureaus of New York Circular #6 , June 1915
Farmer's Almanac 1956 ALM
Farming in Poestenkill Poestenkill Historical Society 1997 LH
FDR 1882 1945: A Centenary Remeberance Joseph Alsop 1982
FDR 1882 _x0096_ 1945: A Centenary Remeberance Joseph Alsop 1982 B
February Fun Days Margaret May Mallery 1974 SPLA
Fenimore House and the Farmers' Museum 1990 LH
Fields of Reams the Hannacroix Creek Paper Mills Chuck Friday 2006 2nd Ed. Revised LH
Fifteenth Annual Report on the inbtroduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska Sheldon Jackson SPSJ
Fighting Words Accounts of the Civil War An Illustrated History of Newspaper Andrew S. Coopersmigh 2004 SPCW
Final Report of the Battlefields of Gettysb urg and Vol. I Chattanooga New York Monuments Commission 1900 SPCW
Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettesburg Vol. II New York Monuments Commission 1900 SPCW
Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettesburg Vol. III New York Monuments Commission 1900 SPCW
Financial and Political Affairs of the Country John F. Collin 1879 NF
Fire Towers of the Catskills Their History and Lore Martin Podskoch LH
Fire! Fire! Fireman A Tribute to the Nation's Firefighters Harold Smith 1972 NF
First Families of America The Abridged Compedium of American Geneology Vol. VI 1968 GEN
First Families of America The Abridged Compendium of American Geneology. Vol. II 1968 GEN
First Families of America The Abridged Compendium ofAmerican Geneology Vol. I 1968 GEN
First Families of America The Compedium of American Geneology Vol. VII 1968 GEN
First Families of America The Abridged Compendium of American Geneology Vol. III 1968 GEN
First Families of America The Abridged Compendium of American Geneology Vol. IV 1968 GEN
First Families of Americal The Abridged Compendium of American Geneology Vol. V 1968 GEN
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Cobleskill, NY LH
First Settlement of Schoharie County by the Germans Judge John M. Brown 1940 LH
Five sermons and a Tract Luther Lee 1975 SPCH
Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley 2006 NF
Floodwood, 1975:spring-1985:spring, incomplete
Fold Art's Many Faces Portraits in the New York State Historical Association D'Ambrosie, Pauyl S. and Charlotte M. Emans 1987 NF
Folk Arts: Living Tradition Folk Arts in Schoharie County Bruce Buckley Phd 1989 LH
Folklore from the Schoharie Hills Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner 1937 LH
Following "The Old Mohawk Turnpike" 1927 LH
Fonda Andy Fusco & Lew Boyd 2002 LH
Footprint of Dueanesburg and the Schoharie Valley Clarence Foote, ed. 1969 LH
Footprints of Duanesburg and the Schoharie Valley Clarence Foote 2006 LH
Footsteps nine Archeological Journeys of Romance and Discovery Bruce Norman 1987 NF
For Military Merit Fred L. Borch 2010 NF
Forgotten Soldiers Brim Moynahan 2007 NF
Fort Hunter - “Canal-Town, USA” David H. Veeder 1968 2nd Edition LH
Fort Hunter United Methodist Church 100th Anniversary 1986 LH
Fort Johnson Historic Structure Report 1977 LH
Fort Johnstown Chapter of the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution 1902 LH
Fort Plain Nelliston History, 1580 - 1947 Nelson Greene 1947 LH
Four 18th Century Taverns in the Town of Schoharie LH
Fox Fire 2 Eliot Wigginton 1972 NF
Foxfire 3 Eliot Wigginton 1974 NF
Foxfire 4 Elliot Wigginton 1973 NF
FoxFire 5 Elliot Wigginton 1979 NF
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