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 Last of the Mohicans Fenimore J. Cooper 1908 FIC
The Legacy of New York Women 1848-1998 Governer's Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women 1998 LH
The Legislative Manual of the State of New York 1872 LAW
The Library of American Biography Vol. IX Jared Sparks 1840
The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States together with his State papers Henry J. Raymond 1865 B
The Life and Works of Thomas Cole Louis Legrand Noble 21.95 B
The Life of Silas Wright Jenkins S., Jhon 1847 B
The Life, Speeches, and Public Service of James A. Garfield Conwell, Russell N. 1881 B
The Lincoln Nobody Knows Richard N. Current 1958 B
The Little Hill Farm or Cruisings in Old Schoharie John Van Schaick, Jr. 1930 LH
The Lost Word The Lure and Lore of Early New England Graveyards Melvin G. Williams 1973 NF
The Loyalists in Onterio, the Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada William D. Reid 1973 GEN
The Maid of the Mohawk Frederick A. Ray 1906 Reprint FIC
The Making of American Resorts Theodore Corbett 2001 LH
The Man, the Railroad and the Bank Charles L. Ryder 1960 B
The Management of Small History Museums Carl E. Guthe 1964 SPOFF
The Marble House in Second Street 2000 LH
The Markers Speak an Informal History of the Schenectady Area John J. Birch 1962 LH
The McNeill Family of New Hampshire and Carlisle, Schoharie County, NY Linda A. Roorda 2008 GEN
The Methodist Almanac 1958 SPCH
The Methodist Episcopal Church Gallupville Ninetieth Anniversary Celebration 1934 LH
The Methodist Hymnal; Official Hymnal of the Methodist Church 1966 SPCH
The Methodists and the Revolutionary America 1760-1800 Dee E. Andrews 2000 SPCH
The Millon the Rocliff Jansen Kill 1993 LH
The Mixing Bouck White 1913 FIC
The Mohawk Valley It's Legends and It's History W. Max Reid 1901 LH
The Mohawk Valley Starings and Allied families Sterling O. Kimball 1998 GEN
The Mohawk Valley Zollers and Allied Families GEN
The Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen Ethan Allen B
The Negro in the Civil War Benjamin Quarles 1989 SPCW
The Negro's Civil War James M. McPherson 1993 SPCW
The New American Cookbook 1896 SPCB
The New Loyalist Index Paul J. Bunnell 1989 GEN
The New Nation 1800-1845 John Mayfield NF
The New York Annual Register for the Year of our Lord 1830 Edwin Williams 1830 DIR
The New York Annual Register for the Year of our Lord 1837 Edwin Williams 1837 DIR
The New York Annual Register fot the year of the Lord 1833 Edwin Williams 1833 DIR
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1928 CEM
The New York Geneological and Biographical Record Vol. 128 No. 4 1997 GEN
The New York Geneological and Biographical Record Vol. 129 No. 1 1998 GEN
The New York Red Book 1973 DIR
The New York Red Book 1968 Myron D. Hartman 1968 DIR
The New York Red Book 1985 George A. Mitchell 1985 DIR
The New York State Business Director containing the names, businesses, address, of all merchants, manufacturers and professional men throughout the state. 1867 DIR
The New York State History and its Museums Frederick L. Rath, Jr. 1968 LH
The New York University Law School Pat and Present Leslie Jay Thomas 1904 SPLA
The North American Almanac "The Aristrocrat of Almanacs" 1927 ALM
The North American Almanac 1923 1923 ALM
The North Blenheim United Methodist Church 1928-1974 1974 LH
The North Star Monthly Interests of Schools and Missions in Alaska, 1887:12-1892:12 (bound) complete SPSJ
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