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
Twenty-Two Years of Voluntary Health Work in Schoharie County 1933-1955 Frances B. Spencer - compiled by LH
Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records, Vol. I Gstave Anjou 1980 PRO
Uncovering the Underground Railroad Abolitionism and African American Life in Montgomery County, New York Judith Wellman, Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar and others 2011 LH
Under the Crescent and Star Conklin, George W. 1999 SPCW
Underground Empire Clay Perry 1948 LH
Unearthing Howes Cave A Community and a Quarry from 1842 on Dana Cudmore 2005 LH
Unearthing Howes Cave: A Community and a Quarry from 1842 on Dana Cudmore 2005 LH
Union College Half Century History of the Class of 1856 Rev. Leander Hall, D.D. 1906 LH
UnionCollege Class of 1868 M. John Lubetkin 1995 LH
Unique Areas in Schoharie County James C. Haviland, comp. LH
United Methodist Church Delanson, NY 100th Anniversary 1876-1976 LH
United States Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin, #'s 21, 587, 823, 869, 879, 887, 927, 984, 1078, 1374, 1399, 1406, 1426, 1448, 1452
United States Western Road Map MAP
Update the Changing Scene in the Northern New Jersey Conference the United Methodist Church 1957-1982 Robert J. Duncan, Sr. 1982 SPCH
Upper Schoharie Hill, 1914-1936 Walter R. Miers 2001 LH
Upstate New York in the 1760's Florence Christop 1992
Valley of Liberty Allan D. Foote 2002 Reprint LH
Van Alstyne - Van Alstine Family History Vol I Lester Van Alstine 1974 GEN
VanRensselaer Bowier Manuscripts Alan H. Strong 1908 LH
Verses Helen McDonald SPLA
Village of Esperance Assessment Roll for the Years 1906-1915 1906-1915 MUN
Village of Esperance Assessment Roll for the Years 1916-1922 1916-1922 MUN
Village of Esperanced Comprehensive Plan 2004 2004 LH
Vindication of the Captors of MAjor Andre Egbert Benson, L.L.D. 1865 NF
Vintage postcards of Otsego County Marilyn E. Dufresene LH
Visions of New York State 1996 LH
Vital Records of Princetown Reformed Church, Duanesburg, New York, 1824-1899 1984 CHU
Vital Records of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cobleskill, New York Lawrence V. Rickard 2000 CHU
Vital Records, Reformed Church, Middleburgh, New York Arthur Kelly 1984 CHU
Vital Recors of the Gilboa Reformed Church (Gilboa, Schoharie County, New York) and the Blenheim Reformed Church (Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York) Lawrence V. Rickard 1999 CHU
Voices of the Civil War Richard Wheeler 1976 SPCW
Vroomans Nose: Sky Island of the Schoharie Valley Vincent J. Schaefer 1998 LH
War in Schohary 1777-1783 Edward A. Hagan 1980 LH
Warm Chimneys Ray F. Pollard 1940 SPLA
Washington in the Mohawk VAlley 1783 N. Berton Alter 1944 LH
Washington Oregon Road Map 1967 MAP
Washington, Steuben and the Continental Army Servants of Democracy 1940 LH
Washington, Steuben and theContinental Army Augustus L.Richards NF
Washington's Secret War Thomas Fleming 2005 NF
Water-Powered Grist Mills of Schoharie County Marian S. Lynes 1988 LH
We Americans Celebrating a Nation, Its People, and Its Past Thomas B. Allen 1999 NF
Weapons of the American Revolution and Accountrements Warren Moore 1967 NF
Webster's Almanac 1845 1845 ALM
Webster's Calendar or Albany Almanac 1806 Andrew Beers 1806 ALM
Webster's Calendar or the Alany Almanac Munsell, Joel 1854 ALM
Webster's Calendar or the Albany Almanac Munsell, Joel 1861 ALM
Webster's Calendar or the Albany Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1897 1897 ALM
Welcome to Duanesburg, Schenectady County 1988 LH
West to the Setting Sun Harvey Chalmers 1946 FIC
Wester's Calendar or the Albany Almanac Munsell, Joel 1866 ALM
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