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
Methodist History Journal, 1983-2008, complete; 2011:7-2013:7, incomplete
Methodist Hymnal with Tones 1878-1953 SPCH
Might Rought Times I Tell You - Personal Accounts of Slavery Andrea Sutcliffe, ed. 2006 SPAA
Miitary Records of Schoharie County Veterans of Four Wars 1891 MIL
Military Music of the American Revolution Raul F. Camus 1975 NF
Military Records of Schoharie Co. Veterans of Four Wars George H. Warner 1891 MIL
Militia Aritifacts in the Collection of the NYS HA Randall S. Schon 1991 NF
Mills on the Tsatsawqssa Philip L. Lord, Jr. 1983 LH
Minutes of the Albany Committee of Correspondence 1775-1778, Vol. I James Sullivan 1923 MIL
Minutes of the Albany Committee of Correspondence 1775-1778, Vol. II and Index Alexander Flick 1925 MIL
Mohawk River Regulating District 1924 Reprint LH
Mohawk Valley Happenings Katherine M. Stobeck 1995 LH
Mohawk Valley Historic Association Sixth Annual Meeting 1926-1931 LH
Mohawk Valley in the Revolution; Committee of Safety Papers and Genealogical Compendium Maryly B. Penrose 1978 LH
Mohawk Valley Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts Maryland B. Penrose, comp. 1989 LH
Mohawk Valley, 1981:winter
Mongomery County Directory 1969 DIR
Montgomery Co. Will Abstracts, 1787-1831 PRO
More Palatine Families Henry Z. Jones, Jr. 1991 GEN
Most Wonderful Machine Judith A. McGaw 1987 NF
Mr. Lincon's Camera Man Mathew B. Brady Roy Meredith 1946 SPCW
Mrs Albert Vanderveer A Memorial B
Murder at Cherry Hill Louise C. Jones 1982 Reprint LH
Murders and Funky Stuff in Schoharie County Karen Cuccinello 2012 LH
Museum Ethics American Association of Museums 1978 LH
Museum Trusteeship Alan D. Ullberg and Patricia Ullberg 1981 SPOFF
Mutiny on the Amistad The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition Law and Diplomacy Howard Jones 1988 SPAA
My Bondage and Freedom Frederick Douglass Philip S. Foner 1969 SPAA
My Farm of Edgewood Charles Scribner 1863 NF
My First Seven Years in America Rev. George Coles 1854 SPCH
My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery Belinda Hurmence, ed. 2005 SPAA
My Times in the Hudson Valley Harold Faber 1997 LH
My Word to You, JQA Fred Lape 1965 SPLA
My Youthful Days Rev. George Coles 1852 SPCH
Name Index Volume I History of Columbia County, New York Captain Benjamin F. Ellis 1986 GEN
Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York Previous to 1784 1860
Native Americans and Their Land; The Schoharie River Valley, New York Mary Druke Becker 2006 LH
Natural History of New York Mineralogy of New York Lewis C. Beck, MD 1842 LH
Nature Cruisings to the Old Home Town and the Little Hill Farm John Van Schaick, Jr. 1928 LH
Nature for All Duane Featherstonehaugh 1948 SPLA
Negro Thought In America 1880-1915 August Meier 2002 SPAA
Never Call Retreat - Vol. Three Bruce Catton 1965 SPCW
Never Forsake the Flag Kenneth M. Jones 1998 LH
Never Forsake the Flag Ken Jones 1998 LH
New Folktales of the Schoharie Valley Alyson Montione LH
New Light on Old Barrah's Allen B. Clark & Jane Herson SPCH
New Topographical Atlas of Schoharie Co., New York, from Actual surveys by S.N. & D.G. Beers and Assistants. Tone, Stewart, publishers, Philadelphia 1866 1975 Reprint MAP
New Yoprk History Quarterly Journal Volume 77 (4) 1996 LH
New York 1820 Census Index 1977 CEN
New York 1830 Census Index 1977 CEN
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