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 Pictorial History of the World War II years Edward Jablonski 1977 NF
A Pictorial Panorama of Early Russian Methodism S. T. Kimbrough, Jr. SPCH
A popular History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Jacob Harris Patton 1900
A Rapid Bioassessment on the Schoharie Creek Schoharie River Center 2002 LH
A Report on the Organization and Numbers of Gates Army. Sept. Oct. 1777 Snell, Charles 1951 MIL
A Resourceful people Rachel Bliven, Robert Andesen, G. Steven Draper, and others 1987 LH
A Reunion of Ministers and Churches 1881 SPCH
A Revolutionary Conservative Edward Alexander 1966 B
A Revoultionary Conservative: Janes Duane of New York Edward P. Alexander 1938 B
A Rural Carpenters World Wayne Franklin 1990 LH
A Schoharie Valley Farmstead Revealed; Being Lot 6 of the Jacob H. TenEyck Patent in New York State Laurel Reed Berbach 2014 LH
A School Teacher in old Alaska – Story of Hannah Breece Jane Jacobs 1995 SPSJ
A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Clarissa paige May 16,1846 Rev. L.H. VanDyck 1846 LH
A Short History Camnbridge Hotel Dave Thornton 2001 LH
A Short History of the Civil War Fletcher Pratt SPCW
A Short Summary of General Richard Montgomery Jacqueline Murphy B
A Spreading Flame Charles Schwartz & Ouida Schwartz SPCH
A Stop on the Uderground Railroad -Rev. J. W. Loguen and Syracuse Paul Hoffman SPAA
A Story of Rural Society J. H. Kolb and Edmund des. brunner 1935 NF
A Summary of Schoharie County Solomon Sias 1904 LH
A Tour of the Hudson, the Mohawk, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware in 1769 Francis W. Halsey, ed. 1989 LH
A Treatise on Reuts, Real. Personal Convants and Conditions Anson Bingham and Andrew J. Colvin 1857 NF
A Tribute Arthur Warren 1846 B
A Trip Through Leatherstocking Country David A. Siegenthaler 2001 LH
A War to Petrify the Heart The Civil War Letters of a Dutchess County, NY Volunteer Richard T. VanWyck Virginia Hughes Kaminsky 1997 SPCW
A Yearnin for Learnin Clarence E. Armstrong 1973 NF
A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States 1861-1865 R. G. Horton 1868-1919 SPCW
A.P. Hill Lee's Forgotten General William Woods Hassler 1962 SPCW
Aboid Experiment David Meschutt 1988 NF
Abraham Lincoln George McGovern 2009 B
Abraham Yates, Jr. Stefan Bielinski 1975 B
Abraham Yates, Jr. and the New Political Order in Revolutionary New York Stefan Bielinski 1975 B
Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings GAR 1894 1894 MIL
Abstract of General Prders and Proceedings of the 39th Annual Encampment GAR 1905 MIL
Abstracts of Wills, Letters of Adminisgtration and Guardianship, Schoharie County, NY Gertrude Barber
Abstracts of Wills, Letters of Administration and Guardianship of Schoharie County, New York, 1975 - 1820 PRO
Across Brimstone Creek Jack Daniels 2000 LH
Address at Annual Meetings of the Mayham Family Assoc. Dow Beekman 1940 GEN
Address of Dow Beckman, L.H.D. August 20, 1939 1939 LH
Adventures of an African Slaver Brantz Mayer 1928 SPAA
AESOP'S Fables in verse Warren Liddle 1971 SPLA
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade Anne C. Bailey 2005 SPAA
Africans in America Charles Johnson 1998 SPAA
Afterward; Memories of Margaret Stetson Stetson, Della Ludington 1912 LH
Agrarian Conflicts in Colonial New York 1711-1775 Irving Mark 1940 LH
Agricultural Change in New York State 1850-1890 Paul W. Gates 1969 LH
Agriculture of New York: Comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of soils and rocks, and the natural waters of the different geological formations Ebenezer Emmons, M.D. 1846 LH
Alaska a Novel James A. Michener 1988
Alaskan Apostle J. Arthur Lazell 1960 SPSJ
Alaskan Pathfinder John T. Faris 1913
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