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
Landmarks of Oswego County 1895 LH
Landmarks of Rensselaer County New York George Baker Anderson 1897 LH
Landmarks of the American Revolution in New York State David C. Thurheimer 1972 Reprint 1940 LH
Landmarks of the Capitol District John E. Boos 1972 Reprint 1940 LH
Lansingburgh New York 1771-1971 Lansingburgh Historical Society 1971 LH
Laws of the State of New York Vol. I 1798 LH
Laws of the State of New York Vol. II 1798 LH
Laws of the State of New York Vol. III 1797 LH
Laws Relating to Common Schools 1841 LH
Leatherstocking Rails A History of Railroading Along the Upper Susquehanna Jim Loudon 2005 LH
Legal and Judicial History of New York Volume I Alden Chester 1811 LH
Legal and Judicial History of New York Volume II J. Hampton Dougherty 1911 LH
Legislative Manual of the State of New York 1917 LAW
Lest We Forget - The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation Velma Maia Thomas 1997 SPAA
Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery Bertram Wyatt-Brown 1969 SPAA
Life and Adventures of Timothy Murphy W. H. Galluf 1975 repring B
Life and Times in the Mohawk Valley,m 1775-1783 James F. Morrison LH
Life and Times of Rev. Elijah Hedding, D.D. Rev. D. W. Clark 1855 SPCH
Life and Times of Silas Wright Hammond D. Jabez 1848 B
Life and Work of Robert Waldo Chesnut Robert Waldo Chestnut, PHD 1943 SPCH
Life of a Slave Girl Harriet A. Jacobs 1987 SPAA
Life of Aaron Burr James Parton 1858 B
Life on the Upper Susquehbanna 1783-186+0 James Arthur Frost 1951 LH
Life Sketches of Executive Officers and Members of the Legislature William H. McElroy and Alex McBride LH
Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators and Assembly of NYS S.R. Harlow and H.H. Boone 1867
Lily in the Box Meg Anderson Argo 2010 SPLA
Lincoln A. Pictorial History Edward Steers, Jr. 1993 B
Lincoln, Sesquicentennial, 1809-1959, Handbook of Information 1958 B
Lincoln's Docgtor's Dog A collection of Poems for Children 8 to 80 Warren Liddle 1981 SPLA
Lincoln's Life Story and Speeches Paul Selby 1902 B
Lincoln's Youth: Ondiana Years Seven to Twenty-one 1816-1830 Louis A. Warren 1991 B
Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan 1979 LH
Literary American: A Chronicle of American Writer from 1607-1952 Scherman, David E. and Rosemarie Redlich 1952
Little Compton Families, Vol. I Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, comp. 1967 GEN
Little Compton Families, Vol. II Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, comp. 1967 GEN
Little Journeys along the Old Mohawk Turnpike 1923 LH
Little Old Mills First Edition Marion Nicholl Rawson 1935 NF
Live Under the "Peculiar Institution" - Selection from the Slave Narrative Collection Norman Yetman 1970 SPAA
Lives of the Governors of the State of New York John S. Jenkins 1852
Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Rev. Charles A. Goodrich 1976
Local Government Handbook 1987 NF
Logical Luther Lee and the Methodist War Paul Leslie Kaufman 2000 SPAA
Long Away and Far Ago Warren Liddle 1977 SPLA
Longhouse Diplomacy and Frontier Warfare The Iroquois Confedracy in the American Revolution William T. Hagan LH
Lorenzo Dow, The Bearer of the Word Charles Coleman Sellers 1928 B
Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of American Methodism Rev. J. B. Wakely 1858 SPCH
Lot #4 Lands of Jacob P Enders MAP
Lriver Reflections – A Short History of Morristown, NY Lorraine B. Borgardus 1988 LH
Lutheranism Takes Root inThe Settlement of pennsylvania 1882-1982 Morna M. Huffman 1982 SPCH
Maggie Newton Van Cott William R. Phinney 1969 SPCH
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