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 Small Mammals of Otsego and Schoharie Counties, NY Bulletin number 382 Paul F. Connor 1960 LH
The Smith & Telfer photographic Colletion of the New York State Historical Association NYS Historical Association 1978 Reprint LH
The Society of the Cincinnati
The State Bridge, 2017:spring-
The Statue Abraham Lincoln Goldstein, Ernest 1997 NF
The Storm William Pitt Root 1969 SPLA
The Story of American Railroads Stewart H. Holbrook 1981 NF
The Story of Howe Caverns LH
The Story of Methodism A.B. Hyde D.D. 1888 SPCH
The Story of My Life or the Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years Mary A. Livermore 1898 B
The Story of Old Fort Plain and the Middle Mohawk Valley Nelson Greene 1915 Reprint LH
The Story of the Friends Meeting House at Quaker Street, NY Marjorie R. Hoag Phillips 1944 LH
The Story of the Methodist Church SPCH
The Story of the Negro Pioneer Kate B. Carter 1965 SPAA
The Story of the New York State Canals Roy G. Finch 1925, 1998 reprint LH
The Story of the Palatines Sanford H. Cobb 1897 LH
The Story of the Schenectady Massacre 1940 LH
The Strength of These Arms: Life in the Slave Quarters Raymond Bial 1997 SPAA
The Supervisor's Manual Isaac Grant Thompson 1869 LAW
The Teluga Mission of the General Council of the Lutherans George Drach and Calvin F. Kuder 1914 SPCH
The Temple of Limestone A History of Boehms Chapel Abram W. Sangrey 1991 SPCH
The Traveller's Pocket Directory and Strangers Guide 1978 Reprint LH
The Typographical Miscellany Munsell, J. 1850, 1972 reprint LH
The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam Jay Luuaas 1988 SPCW
The Unbroken Thread A History of Quiltmaking in the Catskills Steve Hoarc 1996 LH
The Underground Railroad - Hippocrene Guide to Charles L. Blockson 1995 SPAA
The Underground Railroad in the North Country Rebecca Schwarz, Kopf, 2001 SPAA
The Union Preserved A Guide to CivilWar Records in the N YS Archives Harold Holzer 1999 SPCW
The Untillable Hills WW Christman 1937 SPLA
The Van Derwerken-Van Derwerker Family Paul W. Prindle 1966 GEN
The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age John Foreman and Robbe Pierce Stimson 1991 NF
The Veteran in a New Field W. H. Payne 2007 FIC
The Village Cookbook, Esperance, NY, Incorporated 1818, Reccipes and Remembrances 1818-2018 Esperance Historical Bicentennial Committee 2018 SPCB
The Village of Esperance, NY It's Establishment and Development Fred A. Montanye 1944 LH
The Village of Esperance, NY; Its Establishment and Development Fred A. Montanye 1944 3rd Edition LH
The Voice Annual 1930 Vol VIII 1930 EDU
The Voice Annual of the NYS School of Agriculture at Cobleskill, 1929, Vol. VII 1929 EDU
The Way We Were Warren Liddle 1988 SPLA
The Welsh in Pennsylvania Matthew S. Magda 1986 NF
The White House: An Historic Guide White House Historical Association 1982 NF
The works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Chalmers, Thomas 1833 SPCH
The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. Channing 1849 SPAA
The Yo-Sko-Ha-Ro 1956 Yearbook 1956 EDU
The Young (Yung) Families of the Mohawk Valley 1710 - 1946 Clifford M. Young, comp. 1947 GEN
TheLauder Family in America Margaret Lauder 1975 6th printing GEN
These Hills are Not Barren: The Story of a Century Farm George D. Taylor 1950 LH
TheStory of Old Bill Marshall Horatio M. Pollock 1948 FIC
TheStory of the New York State Canals Roy G. Finch 1925 LH
They Called Him Father: The Life Story of John Christian Frederick Heyer E. Theodore Bachmann 1942 B
They Had a Horse The Story of the Schoharie County Seal Waller D Edmunds. 1993 LH
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