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
The Blue and the Gray, a Sketch of Soldier Life in Camp and Field in the Army of the Civil War Wm. T. Levey 1904 SPCW
The Blue Coats and How They Lived, Fought and Died for the Union Captain John Truesdale 1867 SPCW
The Blue-Eyed Indians The Story of Adam Crysler Don Chrysler 1999 LH
The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church 1984 SPCH
The Book of Names Especially Relating to the Early Palatines Lou MacWetny 1933 GEN
The Book of Names Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley Lou D MacWethy, comp. 1969 GEN
The Brave Frontier: A Story of Old Schoharie Helen Fuller Orton 1940 FIC
The Brittan Family of the Town of Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York Laurel Reed Berbach 2014 GEN
The Brown Family of Sloansville and Esperance, Schoharie, County, New York Laurel Reed Berbach 2014 GEN
The Brownell Family of Northville, New York Fred Brownell, comp. 2002 GEN
The Bucolic plague, How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers Josh Kilmer-Purcell 2010 B
The Burned Over District Whitney R. Cross 1981 SPCH
The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg Fiebeger, G.J., Col. 1915 (1984) SPCW
The Capitol Region of New York State, Vol. I, Vol II, Vol III Francis P Kimball 1942 LH
The Carlisle and Esperance Presbyterian Churches 1991 LH
The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around Rev. Charles Rockwell 1869 Revised Edition LH
The Catskills in Vintage Postcards Irwin Richman 1999 LH
The Cemeteries of Duanesburg and Princetown Clarence Foote 2002 CEM
The Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism A Brief Sketch of the Rise progress and present State of the Wesleyan Methodist Societies Throughout the World Thomas Jackson 1839 SPCH
The Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York Allen C. Beach 1879 LH
The CherryValleyMassacre Nov. 11, 1778 The Frontier atrocity that shocked a young nation David Goodnough 1968 LH
The Christian Recorder, A.M.E. Church 18564-1902 Gilbert Antony Williams 1996 SPCH
The Church in Beard's Hollow 2000 LH
The Civil War Robert Paul Jordan 1969 SPCW
The Civil War A Photographic History Schnindler, Stan 1991 SPCW
The Civil War Almanac John S. Bowman 1983 SPCW
The Civil War and Illustrated History Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 SPCW
The Civil War and Reconstruction J. G Randall 1961 SPCW
The Civil War Collection Bob Zeller SPCW
The Civil War Dictionary Mark Boatner 1988 SPCW
The Civil War in Depth History in 3-D Bob Zeller 1997 SPCW
The Civil War in Depth Volume II Bob Zeller 2000 SPCW
The Civil War on the Web William G. Thomas and Alice E. Carter 2001 SPCW
The Civil War Society's Encyclopedia of the Civil War 1997 SPCW
The Civil Wars Black Soldiers Joseph Glatthar 2007 SPAA
The Cobleskill Methodist Church Historical Pamphlet, 1854-1954 LH
The Colonial Tavern A Glimpse of New England Town Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Edward Field 1989 NF
The Coming Fury (Vol. I) Bruce Catton 1961 SPCW
The Coming of the Civil War Robert Goldston 1972 SPCW
The Complete History of World War II Francis Traveyan Miller NF
The Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War Henry E. Simmons 1965 SPCW
The Continental Army Robert K. Wright, Jr. 1989 NF
The Country Gentlemen,1858:1-1864:7 (bound), incomplete
The Country Printer New York State, 1785-1830 Milton W. Hamilton LH
The Cultivator (3rd Series), 1853:1-1858:12 (bound), incomplete (missing 1854 and 1856); 1863:12-1865:12 (bound), complete
The Cultivator (A Consolidation of Buel's Cultivator and The Genesee Farmer), 1840:1-1843:12 (bound), complete
The Cultivator (New Series), 1844:1-1846:12 (bound), complete: 1850:1-1852:12 (bound), complete
The Cultivator and the Country Gentlemen, 1867:1-1993:12 (bound), incomplete
The Cultivator, 1834:3-1840:2 (Vol. I-VI), complete except missing Vol. V (1938:3-1939:2)
The Dallenbachs in America 1710-1935 1969 GEN
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