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
New york 1840 Census Index 1978 CEN
New York 1860 North Census Index Ronald Vern Jackson 1987 CEN
New York 1860 South Census Index Louise Hasbrouck Zim, A. Elwood, Joseph W. Emsley and others 1988 CEN
New York 1860 West Census Index 1988 CEN
New York Alien Residents, 1825 - 1848 Kenneth Scott and Rosanne Conway, comp. 1978 GEN
New York Annual Register for the year of our Lord 1840 Edwin Williams 1840 DIR
New York Code of Public Instruction 1868 LAW
New York Folklore, 1945:8-1957:summer, incomplete; 1960:summer-1964:12, incomplete
New York History Quarterly Journal Volume 79 1998 LH
New York History, 1988:7-2000:4, incomplete
New York in the American Revolution A Bibliography Milton M. Klein 1974 LH
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State James A. Roberts 1897 LH
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. 1 Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. 2 Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. 3 Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. 4 Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. 5 Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Vol. Index Frederick Phisterer 1912 SPCW
New York Organ, A Family Companion, 1852:7:3-1853:6:25, complete
New York Portrait, A Literary Look at the Empire State Jack Ishmole and Sally Ronsheim 1965 FIC
New York State Agricultural Society, 1943-1949
New York State Almanac 1885 1885 ALM
New York State Almanac Diary and Gazeteer, 1885 1885 ALM
New York State and the Civil War, 1961:7 (supplement)-1963:3, incomplete
New York State Business Directory Unkown 1850 DIR
New York State Canals MAP
New York State Commissioon to Commemorate theWar of 1812 and the Composition of the Star Spangled Baner 1969 LH
New York State Historical Society Collections 1870 James Duane 1871 LH
New York State Illustrated Mrs. S.S. Colt 1872-3 LH
New York State Legislature 1969-1970(Supplement) Myron D. Hartman 1969 DIR
New York State Men: Biographical Studies & Character Portraits, Vol. I Frederick Simon Hills
New York State Register for 1858 1858 DIR
New York State Register for the year of our Lord 1830 Roger Sherman Skinner 1830 DIR
New York State's prevailing wage and Benefit Requirements: Avoiding the Pitfalls Kenneth M. Jones, John J. Poklemba, Alan M. Pollack 2011 LH
New York Stater's Covered Bridges Richard R. Wilson 2004 LH
New York; a guide to the Empire State Writers Program 1972 Reprint 1940 LH
New York: The State of Art New York State Museum LH
New York's Capital District, 1978-2003 Tom Killips 2004 LH
New York's Farmer Governor A. Edward Hagan and Mark Sullivan 2006 B
Nicholas Stoner and the Sammons Boys or A Tale of the Mohawk Valley Donald R. Williams 1972 Reprint 1940 LH
No Foot of Land; Folklore of American Methodist Itinerants Donald E. Byrne, Jr 1975 SPCH
North Blenheim Methodist Church 1828-1953 1953 LH
North County Life and York State Tradition, 1959:spring-1974:winter, incomplete
North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom Milton C. Sernett 2002 Reprint LH
O Albany William Kennedy 1983 LH
O'Albany Kennedy, William FIC
Of Plates and Purlins Grandpa Builds a Barn Elliot M. Sayward 1971 NF
Official History of the Town of Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York Kenneth H. Fake 1937 LH
Old Albany, A Pictorial History of the City of Albany, Vol. I 1986 LH
Old Albany, A Pictorial History of the City of Albany, Vol. II and III from the Morris Gerber Collection 1986 LH
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