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 Old Line Mail Richard F. Palmer 1977 LH
The Old Mill Stream in the Town of Seward Beryl K. Warner LH
The Old Mohawk Turnpike Book Nelson Greene 1924 Reprint LH
The Old New York Frontier Its Wars with indians andTories, its Missionary Schools, pioneers and Land Titles 1614-1800 Francis Whiting Halsey 1901 LH
The Old Stone Fort Church and Fortress Chauncey Rickard, comp. 1933
The Oneonta Roundhouse Jim Loudon 1993 LH
The Oneota; From Notes and Memoranda Written Down by Willard E. Yager Prior to his Death 1961 LH
The Onward March of Zion's Church, 1758 - 1939, A Historical Summary Charles L. Ryder 1939 LH
The Operation Care and Repair of Farm Machinery NF
The Operation, Care and Repair of Farm Machinery Twenty Dixth edition NF
The Original Erie Canal at Fort Hunter David H. Veeder 1968 LH
The Palantine or German Immnigration to New York and Pennsylvania Sanford H. Cobb 1897 LH
The Palantines of New York 1953 LH
The Palantines of Olde Ulster Benjamin Myuer Brink 2000 Reprint LH
The Palatine Families of NEw York, Vol. 1 Henry Z. Jones, Jr. 1985 GEN
The Palatine Families of NEw York, Vol. 2 Henry Z. Jones, Jr. 1985 GEN
The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol. 9 1946 LH
The Pictorial Cultivator Almanac for the Year 1851 1851 ALM
The Picture History of World War II 1973 NF
The Political Economy of Slavery - Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South Eugene D. Genovese 1967 SPAA
The Port Hudson Campaign 1862-1863 Cunnigham, Edward 1991 SPCW
The Presidents Bill Harris 1990
The Pumpkin Patch Cookbook SPCB
The Reclaiming of James Dempster Charles Downer Schwarts & Quida Davis Schwartz 1982 Reprint SPCH
The Remarkable Howe Caverns Story Dana D. Cudmore 1990 LH
The Restoration of Lovely Lane Church David Gilmore Wright and Calvin Corell SPCH
The Revolution Remembered John C. Dann 1983 NF
the ridge Ontario Blossom Country Arch Merrill 1944 Reprint LH
The Rockwell Family in America 1630-1873 Henry Ensign Rockwell 1873 GEN
The Roll Call of theioroquois Chiefs William N. Fenton 2002 Reprint LH
The Romance of the Revolution Bunce 1956 NF
The Sable Arm Dudley Taylor Cornish 1856 SPCW
The Sacandaga Story A Valley of Yesteryear Larry Hart 1967 LH
The Saddlebag Almanac, Volume I & II John T. Hayes MIL
The Salt Book Pamela Wood 1977 NF
The Schoharie Alps in the News Karen McLaughlin Cuccinello, comp. 2012 LH
The Schoharie County Directory 1899 1899 DIR
The Schoharie County Sunday School Association Annual Report Louis F. Brown, comp. 1908 LH
The Schoharie Valley John P.D. Wilkinson 2012 LH
The School and the Schoolmaster PartI and Part II Alonzo Potter and George B. Emerson 1842 NF
The Sears Roebuck Catalogue, 1902, 1908, 1927 (reprints)
The Seasons of America Past Eric Sloane 2005 NF
The Sexagenary; or Reminiscences of the American Revolution S. De Wit BloodGood 1999 NF
The Shaw Memorial 2002 SPCW
The Short Season of Sharon Springs Hansi Durlach 1980 LH
The Silent War Tom Schiesel NF
The Silver Bay Story 1902-1952 E. Clark Worman 2001 LH
The Simmendinger Register Ulrich Simmendinger 1991 GEN
The Slaughters'History of Schoharie County Hendrix, Lester E. 1994 LH
The Slaves' War Andrew Ward 2008 SPAA
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