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
They Made America Harold Evans NF
They Walked These Hills Before Me; An Early History of the Town of Conesville Beatrice H. Mattice, comp. 1980 LH
Third Battalion of Tryon County Militia, 1983:I:no. 1-1986:V:no. 1/2, incomplete; 1992:XII:no. 9-1997:12, incomplete
Thirty Years View; A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850, Vol. I Thomas W. Beuton 1866 NF
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the State Superintendent, 1892 for the School Year Ending July 25, 1891 State of NY Dept. of Public Instruction 1892 EDU
This is America My Country Vol. 1 Donald H. Sheehan, ed. 1952 NF
This is America My County Vol. 2 Donald Sheehan, ed. 1952 NF
This Way We Came Gordon H. Higgins 1970 LH
Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature Albany Institute of History and Art 1993 LH
Thomas Webb, A Founder of American Methodism Arthur Bruce Moss 1975 SPCH
Three Eyes on the Past Louis C. Jones 1982 LH
Three Villages, One City Douglas L. Sinclair 1976 LH
Through _x0093_Poverty's Yale_x0094_: A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York _x0096_ 1832-1862 Henry Conklin 1974 LH
Through Poverty's Yale: A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York 1832-1862 Henry Conklin 1974
Through The Darkest hour A Romantic story of a Union College Man's adventures and tribulations during the Civil War Larry Hart 1990 LH
Thumbnail History of Mariaville and Duanesburg George L. Peeke 1992 LH
Thumbnail Sketches of the Schoharie Valley Thelma P. Stone 1981 LH
Thunder in the Valley Jeff O'Connor 2002 LH
Tim Murphy Morgan Rifleman and other Ballads A. M. Sullivan 1947 B
Time Wearing Out Memory Schoharie County Steve Gross and Susan Daley LH
Timetables of History for Students of Methodism Rex D. Matthews 2007 SPCH
Timothy Murphy Run, 1993-2011, incomplete
Timothy, Murphy Herd of the American Revolution Michael J. O'Brien 1941 B
Tin Horns and Calico The Thrilling Unsung Story of an American Revolt Against Serfdom Henry Christman 1978 Reprint LH
To Honor the Spirits R.L. Shalkop Walter A. Van Horn 1980 SPSJ
TO-WOS-SCHO-HOR: The Land of the Unforgotten Indian, A True Story of the Schoharie Creek Dorwin W. Bulson 1961 LH
Togetherness
Town of Broome The First Two Hundred Hears 1797-1997: A Compilation of Facts, News Articles and other Intersting Stuff Carol Buschynski 1997 LH
Town of Esperance 150 years 1846-1996 Ken Jones LH
Town of Esperance 150 years 1846-1997 Ken Jones LH
Town of Esperance 150 years 1846-1998 Ken Jones LH
Town of Fulton 175th Anniversary Celebration 2003 LH
Town of Fulton, 1828-1959 Catherine D. Lawyer 1959 LH
Town of Sharon Schoharie, N. Y.; Slate Hill Cemetary, Sharon Hill Sandra Manko, Bernadetta Vooman, Barbara Cousineau and Omer Cousineau 2007 CEM
Town Supervisors Financial Recors in Account with the Town of Esperance – School Money, 1869-1919 1868-1919 EDU
Traditional Folk Art of Montgomery County, New York Field Horne 1989 LH
Trails, 1932:winter-1933, incomplete; 1934-1945, complete
Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1843-1894, incomplete
Transcript of the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census of Schoharie County, New York 1840 1991 CEN
Transportation Revolution 1815-1860 George Rogers Taylor 1989 NF
Trappers of New York Jeptha R. Simms 1935 LH
Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1911 ALM
Triumph from Tragedy Araxi Hubbard Dutton Palmer 1997 B
Trolleys Down the Mohawk Valley William Reed Gordon LH
Troy Don Ritter 2007 LH
Troy Conference Miscellany Containing Historical Sketch of Methodism Stephen Parks 1854 SPCH
Turning the World Upsidedown - The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women 1987 SPAA
Turnpike Traces "Preserving the Heritage of Cherry Valley Cherry Valley Historical Society 1987 LH
Turnpikes Joseph Austin Durrenber 1968 NF
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Austin Steward 2004 SPAA
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