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 Dallenbachs in America 1936-1979 1979 GEN
The Death of Slavery - The United States, 1837-65 Elbert Smith 1967 SPAA
The Defenders of the Frontier Dow Beekman 1937 LH
The Delegate from New York Joseph Reese Strayer, ed. 1967 LH
The Delos Jones Family of Esperance and the Town of Duanesburg, NY Laurel Reed Berbach 2014 GEN
The Denison Family, Esperance, Schoharie County and the Town of Duanesburg Laurel Reed Berbach 2014 GEN
The Descendants of Johan Ernst Emichen Emigrant to America Volume I 1998 GEN
The Descendants of Thomas Dale 1756-1843 Seth P. Holcombe GEN
The Descendents of Christophel Fuchs of the Palatine Donald F. Fox, comp. GEN
The Descendents of Thomas Dale (1756-1843) of Springfield, MA Seth P. Holcombe 1985 GEN
The Devendorf Family Ola Walter Bell 1932 GEN
The Dillivans Iowa Descendants of Nicholas DeLaVergne Dorothy Garver 1979 Reprint GEN
The Ditch That Helped Build America LH
The Documentary History of the State of New York - Vol. IV E.B. O'Callaghan 1851 LH
The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol, II E.B. O'Callaghan 1849 LH
The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol, III E.B. O'Callaghan 1850 LH
The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I E.B.O'Callaghan, M.D. 1849 LH
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America John Fiske NF
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America Vol. II John Fiske 1899 LH
The Edison Era 1876-1892 The General Electric Story Volume I 1976 LH
The Eighteenth Century Failing Family of the Mohawk Valley David Kendall Martin 1979 GEN
The Eighteenth Century Kilts Family of the Mohawk Valley David Kendall Martin 1985 GEN
The Eighteenth Century Snell Family of the Mohawk Valley David Kendall Martin 1982 GEN
The Eleventh Corps Artillery at Gettysburg The Papers of Major Thomas Ward Osborn Herb S. Crumb 1991 SPCW
The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln 1998 SPCW
The Empire State at War World War II Karl Drew Hartzell 1949 Reprinted LH
The Empire State Scrap Book of Stories and Legends of Old New York Ernest E. Bisbee 1939 LH
The Ephrata Cloister Eugene E. Doll 1987 NF
The ERA of the Reconstruction 1865-1877 Crown Publishers Inc. 1965 SPCW
The Erie Canal a Bilbliography Revised Edition Lionel D. Wyld 1990 LH
The Evening Journal Almanac, 1869 S.C. Hutchins ALM
The Eyes of the Storm: Hurrican Irene in Images and Words Gilboa Conesville Central School Students 2012 LH
The Farmer's Almanac 1818 Beers, Andrew 1818 ALM
The Farmers and Dairyman's Almanac 1854
The Federalist Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison 1901 NF
The Fire of Freedom, Abraham Galloway and the slaves Civil War David S. Cecelski 2012 SPCW
The First 175 Years of Crane Papermaking Wadworth R. Pierce 1977 NF
The Flockey 13 August 1777 The Defeat of the Tory uprising in the Schoharie Valley Gavin K. Watt 1988 LH
The Forest preserve of New York State in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains; a Short History Norman J. VanValkenburgh 1996 LH
The Forging of a Constituional Government on the Frontier in New York's Schoharie Valley Smith, Juha K. 1990 LH
The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery William Chenery 1969 SPCW
The Fox Family Ola W. Bell, Col. GEN
The Foxfire Book Eliot Wigginton 1971 NF
The French Horn at the Flockey John T. Hayes 1984 LH
The Frontiersman of New York, Vol. I Jeptha R. Simms 1882 LH
The Frontiersmen Aimard,Gustave 1854 FIC
The Fumblefinch and other Nonsense Warren Liddle 1992 SPLA
The Galaxy, 1872:1-1872:6 (bound)
The Garden of American Methodism William Henry William 1984 SPCH
the General Electric Story A Heritage of Innovation 1876-1999 Schenectady Museum Association 1999 LH
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