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
A Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York 1896 LH
A Durable Memento Portrains by Augustus Washington Aftican American Daguerreoty pist Ann M. Shumard SPAA
A Faithful Pastor: Biographical Sketches of John Ross Warrent Hathaway 1880 B
A Far Cry From Freedon: New York State's Crime Against Humanity - Gradual Abolition (1799-1827) L. Lloyd Stewart 2005 SPAA
A Farm and Village Boyhood Fred Lape 1980 SPLA
A Flame of Fire Charles Schwartz & Quida Schwartz 1982 Reprint SPCH
A Free Soil – A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, NY Dorothy Kubik 1997 LH
A Garden of Trees and Shrubs Fred Lape 1965 SPLA
A Gaxeteer of the State of New York Horatio Gates Spafford, A.M 1813 DIR
A Gazetteer of the State of New York 1842 DIR
A Gazetteer of the United States of America also its mineral springs, waterfalls, caves and beaches John Hayward 1853 DIR
A General Electric Scrapbookj History with Commnentary 1878-1953 1953 LH
A General History of the Burr Family with a Genealogical Record from 1193 - 1902 Charles Burr Todd 1902 GEN
A Geographical History of the State of New York J H Mather & L P Brockett, M.D. 1853 LH
A Guide in the Wilderness or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Countries of New York William Cooper 1965 5th printing LH
A Guide to the Revolutionary War Manuscripts in the NYS Library Stepfan Bielinski 1976 NF
A Guide to the Salem Withcraft Hysteria of 1692 David C. Brown 2000 NF
A Hill Farm Year Lansing Christman 1956 SPLA
A Hillside Harvest Lansing Christman 1957 SPLA
A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Wiliam Hammond of London, England and His Wife Elizabeth Penn Roland Hammond 1894 GEN
A History of African-Americans in Early New York State Charles Swain SPAA
A History of Africans-American-Americans in Early New York State Charles Swain LH
A History of Cobleskill Theodore Shuart, comp. 2002 LH
A History of Fulton County in the Revolution James F. Morrison 1977 LH
A History of Jefferson County in the State of New York Franklin B. Hough AMMD 2005 Reprint LH
A History of Montgomery County LH
A History of Negro Slavery in New York Edward J. McManus 1966 SPAA
A History of Oneonta Dudley M. Campbell 1906-1915 LH
A History of Schenectady During the Revolution Willis T. Hanson 1988 Rerint LH
A History of Schoharie County Marion F. Noyes 1964, 1980 LH
A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, NY Franklin B. Hough AMMD 1970 Reprint LH
A History of the 134th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War Michael Patrick Cosgrove 1997 SPCW
A History of the 279th Engineer Combat Battalion, Twenty Months In World War II, 1944-1945 2000 MIL
A History of the 7th Infantry Division in World War II Edmund G. Love 1988 NF
A History of the Civil War Lossing J. Benson 1912 SPCW
A History of the County of Schenectady Committee of C.W. Van Santvoord, C.S. Halsey and W. T. Becker 1887 LH
A History of the Iroquois Indian Museum John P. Ferguson 1993 LH
A History of the Town of Jefferson, 1771-1976 Mildred L. Bailey LH
A History of the Town of Jefferson, 1776-1976, 1976-1987 Mildred L. Bailey LH
A Hundred Years of Methodism Matthew Simpson 1876 SPCH
A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country 1988 LH
A MAnual for History Museums Arthur C. Parker 1935 NF
A Memorial Census for Duanesburg with Supplement for the Bordering Towns Clarence Foote 1935
A Memorial of John S. Kenyon Proceedings of the Legislature 1903 B
A Museum of Early American Tools Eric Sloane 1964 NF
A Neat Plain Modern Stile: Philip Hooker and His Contemporaries 1796-1836 William Salzello 1992 B
A New Cannon Private in the Civil War letters of Justus M. Suliman, 17th CT Volunteers Edward Marcus, ed. 1984 SPCW
A New Gazetteer, or Geographical directory of North America and the West Indies 1836 DIR
A Photographer's Cape Ann Diary Gloucester, Rockport and much more... Donald E. Hults 2005 NF
A Pictorial Histor of the Negro in America Longston Hughes and Milton Meltzer 1968 SPAA
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