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
Albany Don Ritter 2002 LH
Albany County Militia, 1993:1-1993:12, incomplete
Albany Dutch, English and American Codman Hislop 1936 LH
Albany Medical College and Albany Hospital A History: 1839-1982 Richard T. Beebe, M.D., Sc. D. 1983 LH
Albany State University A Centennial History 1903-2003 Titus Brown, PH D 2003 LH
Albany Susquehanna and Binghamton Business Directory 1886 DIR
Albany to Tappan C. G. Hine 1906 Reprint LH
Album of Information Concerning the Esperance Bridges over the Schoharie Creek, collected by James L. Gage James L. Gage LH
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 B
Alistair Cooke's America Alistair Cooke 1973 NF
Along the Country Road Ray F. Pollard 1941 SPLA
Along the Schoharie Fred Lape 1968 SPLA
America I Am BlackFacts Quintard Taylor 2009 SPAA
America's Fascinating Indian Heritage James A. Maxwell, ed. 1978 NF
America's Heritiage Quilts 1981 NF
American Agriculturist Yearbook and Almanac 1900 ALM
American Farm Tools from Hand-Power to Steam Power R. Douglas Hurt 1989 NF
American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War Ketchum, Richard M., ed. and Bruce Catton 1960 SPCW
American Historical Documents Charles W. Eliot, L.L.D. 1938 NF
American Locomotive Company New York City LH
American Methodist pioneer of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson Robert Drew Simpson 1984 SPCH
American Portrait Gallery A.D. Jones 1855
American Slavery 1619-1877 Peter Kolchin 1995 SPAA
American Slaves Tell Their Stories Six Interviews Octavia V. Rogers Albert 2005 SPAA
Ames Cemetery Sharon Historical Society 2007 CEM
Ames-Sprout Brook United Methodist Church LH
An Agricultural Legacy: Farm Outbuildings of Central New York Gilbert T. Vincent 1991 LH
An Alarm of Fire: Fire Fighting in Middleburgh Edward A. Hagan 1995 LH
An Encyclopedic Dictinary of American History Howard L. Hurwitz 1968 NF
An Epoch and a Man: Martin Van Buren and His Times Denis Tilden Lynch 1929 B
An Historical Research Representing Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers George Livermore 1863 SPAA
An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West 1980 GEN
An Uncommon Soldier Lauren Cook Burgess, ed. 1994 SPCW
Analysis of Sharon Waters, Schoharie County Sebastan F. Fonda 1854 reprint LH
Ancestors 0 In Search of Human Origins Donald and Lenora Johnson and Blake Edgar 1994 NF
Ancestral Trails Along the Mohawk L. Worrick McFee GEN
And Grandma said... Iroquois Teachings as passed down through the oral tradition Tom Porter 2008 LH
Annals of Richfield Dr. Henry A. Ward 1898 LH
Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York 1869-70 1869 AR
Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners 1840 Ruggles, Hamilton, Whitney, Dexter, Hudson Boughton 1841 AR
Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of NY 1869 AR
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the State of New York 1845 EDU
Annual Report of the Village Treasurer; Fiscal Year 28 Feb 1929 1929 MUN
Annual Report of the Village Treasurer: Fiscal Year Ending 28 Feb. 1930 1930 MUN
Another Day, Another Dollar The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Catskills Diane Galusha 2009 LH
Anti-Rent Controversy Albany 1865 Fiat Justitia 1865 LH
Antiques in Schoharie Annual Programs, 1986-1999, incomplete
Antiquites of the State of New York EG Squier M.A. 1851 LH
Anunerring Fre, The Massacre at Fort Pillow Richard L. Fuchs 2002 SPCW
Apples and Man Fred Lape 1979 SPLA
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