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
Old Albany, A Pictorial History of the City of Albany, Vol. IV 1986 LH
Old Country Churches of Susssex County, Delaware Robert H. Robinson and Dniel G. Coston, Jr. LH
Old Fort Hunter and Queen Anne Chapel at Fort Hunter, NY; 225th Anniversary Program, September 12, 1937 Edward J. Sheehan, comp. 1937 LH
Old Gravestones of Duchess County, New York, Vol. II J. Wilson Poucher, M. D. Reynolds and Helen Wilkenson Reynolds 1924 CEM
Old Huguenot Burying Ground Huguenot Historical Society 1970 CEM
Old Ironsides Americans Build a Fighting Ship David Weitzman 1997 NF
Old Ironsides-Eagle of the Sea- The Story of the USS Constitution Colonel David Fitz-ENZ 2004 NF
Old Schenectady George S. Roberts LH
Old Schoharie Elliot Danforth 1893 reprint LH
Old West Hurley Revisited Allen M. Rowe 1999 LH
Olden Times of Albany and Schenectady. First known Discoverers of Americal LH
On the Altar of Freedom Letters from the Front Corporal James Henry Booding A Black Soldiers Civil War 1991 SPAA
On The Mountain in the Valley Catskills Architecture 1750-1920 Bruce T. Sherwood, ed. 1977 LH
On the Road in Schoharie Editor D. H. Duell 1986 LH
On the Score of Hospitality 1986 LH
One Hundred and One Patchwork Patterns Ruby Short McKim 1931 NF
one Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany and the Siege and relief of Fort Stanwix 1927 LH
One Hundred Years of the Nation Henry M. Christmom, ed. 1966 NF
One Nation Again Carter Smith, ed. 1993 SPCW
One of Custer's Wolverines Eric J., Wittenburg, ed. 2000 SPCW
Orderly Books of the Fourth NEw York Regiment 1778-1780 Lauber, Almon 1932 MIL
Osborne Farm Annual, 1913 1913 ALM
Other Days Other Ways Warren Liddle 1982 SPLA
Otsego Co. Will Abstracts, 1794-1850 1958 PRO
Otsego County New York Geographical and Historical Edwin F. Bacon Ph. B. 1902 LH
Otsego Cunty New York Louise Hasbrouck Zim, A. Elwood, Joseph W. Emsley and others 1893 LH
Our County and It's People, Madison County, New York 1899 LH
Our Family Physician H. R. Stout 1887 NF
Our Immigrant Ancestors from ScotlandL George Smith and His Wife, Mary Bard and their Descendents Alice Crandall Park 2002 GEN
Our Kindred an Historical Record of the Van Horne Family in America Abram VanHorne 1888 GEN
Our Memory at Risk: Preserving NewYork's Unique Research Resources New York Document Conservation Advisory Council SPOFF
Our Presidents Barbara Barclay 1977
Our Vanishing Landscape Eric Sloane 2004 NF
Outlines of History Montgomery County State of New York Hugh P. Donlon 1973 LH
Over the Bridge to Yesteryear The Eccentric Club of Central Bridge 1978 Reprint LH
Over the Counter and on the Shelf - Country Storekeeping in America 1620-1920 Laurence A. Johnson 1961 NF
Palantine Roots The 1710 German Settlement in New York as Experienced by Johann Peter Wagner Nancy Wagoner DIxon 1994 LH
Palatines Along the Mohawk Their Church in the Wilderness Ada L.F. Snell LH
Paper Making in Pioneer America Dard Hunter 1952 NF
Papers Relating to Manor of Livingston including 1st Settlement of Schoharie 1680-1795 E B. O'Callaghan 1850 LH
Pathways of Time Schenectady 1798-1948 Sesquicentennial Committee 1948 LH
Peacemakers in Schoharie County A History 1967-1994 Jack Daniels 1998 LH
Peckham Genealogy 1922 GEN
People and Places in the Town of Fulton Town of Fulton Historical Society 2007 LH
Personal Relics of Baron Von Steuben Together with the Revolutionary Papers of William North 1929 LH
Philip Embury's Final Rest, Phillip Embury's Grave and Ashgrove Cemetery E. Farley Sharp 1991 LH
Phinney's Calendar or Western Almanac Perkins, George R. 1865 ALM
Phinney's Calendar or Western Almanac 1873 George R. Perkins 1873 ALM
Phinney's Calendar or Western Almanac 1877 Herman Poole 1877 ALM
Phinney's Calendar or Western Almanac 1882 Lester Wheeler 1882 ALM
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