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
Recipes Out of the Past Esperance Historical Society SPCB
Recollections and Indidents of Philander Stevens 1896 B
Recollections of an itinerant Life Rev. A.F. Selleck 1886 SPCH
Recollections of Seventy Years Daniel A. Payne 1969 SPAA
Reconginition Denied A History of theBlack Soldier in America's Civil War Browen E. Kenneth 2006 SPCW
Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War MIL
Records of Early Burial Places on the Farms in the town of Guilderland, NY and Surrounding towns William A. Brinkman 1940 CEM
Records of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Schoharie, NY Vol. 1 1914 CHU
Records of St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church Town of Schoharie Vol. 2 1942 CHU
Records of the Church Session of the Presbyterian Church of Esperance, NY CHU
Records of the Church Session of the Presbyterian Church, Esperance, NY CHU
Records of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Town of Glen 1805-1882 1990 CHU
Records of the High and Low Dutch Reformed Congreation at Schoharie Vol. I 1917 CHU
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, New York, 1683 - 1809 1978 CHU
Red Cloak Flying Widdemar, Margaret 1950 FIC
Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War Nicholas LeMann 2006 SPAA
Reformed Church Middleburgh, NY 1797-1899 1984 CHU
Relfections on Sharon 1797-1997 A Pictorial History Sandra Manko, Katina Manko, Jean Bakkom, eds. 1997 LH
Remembering America A Sampler of the WPA American Guide Series Archie Hogson 1985 NF
Remembering Grandma Moses Beth Moses Hickok B
Remembering the Town of Duanesburg, Vol. 1 Compiled by Pat Van Buren and Bill Massoth 2009 LH
Remembering Three Churches Eva H. Gemmil 1984 LH
Reminiscences of Early Circuit Life James Erwin 1884 SPCH
Reminiscences of TwoYears with the Colored Troops (Reprint) J.M. Addeman 1880 SPAA
Reminiscences: Personal and other Incidents, Early Settlemtn of Otsego County, etc. Levi Beardsley 1852 LH
Reminiscenses in the Settling of the Valley of the Little Hoosick: Events of the Revolutionary War, etc. Nelson Hull 1858 LH
Reminiscing Across the Valleys Volume 3 Mark Simonson LH
Reminiscing Across the Valleys Volume 5 Mark Simonson 2006 LH
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Biographical Record Henry B. Mason LH
Report of the Commision of Patents General review of American Agriculture 1850 AR
Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer in Alaska with Maps and Illustrations Sheldon Jackson 1896 SPSJ
Reports of the Commission to Examine the Affairs of Union College J.N. Campbell, J.C. Wright, L.S. Chatfield, David Buel Jr., P.S. VanRensselaer 1853 LH
Reports on the Condition of Educational and School Service and the Management of Reindeer in the District of Alaska Frank C. Churchill 1906 SPSJ
Research Notes Concerning the Town of Esperance Ken Jones (compiled by) LH
Return to Earth Warren Liddle 1985 SPLA
Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Free Man SPAA
Reveille in Washington 1860-1865 Leech, Margaret 1991 SPCW
Review of Agricultural and Natural Resources of New York State 1912 1912 LH
Revolution In America - Confidential Letters and Journals - 1776-1784 of Adjutant Gernal Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces Bernhard A. Uhlendorf 1957 NF
Revolutionary Pensions Pension List of US for 1813 1994 Reprint MIL
Richfield Springs and Vicinity W. T. Bailey 1874 LH
Richmondville Union Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute 1853 LH
Road, Rivers and Rails, Volume I John Taibi 2012 LH
Robert Hunter 1666-1734: New York's Augustan Statesman Mary Lou Lustig 1983 B
Robert Strawbridge, First American Methodist Circuit Rider Frederick E. Maser 1983 SPCH
Robert Waldo Chestnut – An Autobiography Robert Waldo Chestnut, PHD 1943 SPCH
Robert's Rules of Order Revised General Henry M. Robert NF
Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, 1880:1-1881:12 (bound) SPSJ
Roll on, Pioneers Fred Lape 1935 SPLA
Roster of the Seventeenth Regiment Michigan Infantry Association 1901 MIL
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