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
Approaching the Bicentennial The New York State Senarte 1777 to 1977 1976 LH
Archaeology and Geochronology of the Susquehanna and Schoharie Regions John R Cole & Laurie R. Godfrey, ed. 1977 LH
At the Zoo Fred Lape 1966 SPLA
Atlas of African American History James Ciment 2001 SPAA
Auto Biography of Rev. John H. Mills John Mills 1857 SPCH
Autobiography of A.C. Morehouse A.C. Morehouse SPCH
Autobiography of Peter Cartwright Peter Cartwright 1984 SPCH
Autobiography of Rev. Tobias Spicer (containg Incidents and Observations) Rev. Tobias Spicer 1852 SPCH
Autobiography of the Rev. Luther Lee Rev. Luther Lee 1882 (copy) SPCH
Ayer's American Almanac 1899 1899 ALM
Babcock Barns Richard W. Babcock LH
Back Home Warren Liddle SPLA
Ballads of the Farm and Home Henry H. Johnson 1902 SPLA
Baptism Record Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, NY1722-1899 Arthur C. M. Kelly 1968 CHU
Baptism Record of Caughnawaga Reformed Church, Fonda, NY 1758-1849 1985 CHU
Baptism Record of Reformed Church, Germantown, NY 1729-1898 1969 CHU
Baptism Record of Reformed Curch, Stone Arabia, NY Arthur C. M. Kelly 1982 CHU
Baptism Record of Schenectady Reformed Church CHU
Baptism Record of the Reformed Church Herkimer, NY 1801-1899 CHU
Baptism Record of the Schoharie Reformed Church 1977 CHU
Baptism Record of Trinity Lutheran Church. Stone Arabia, NY Arthur C. M. Kelly 1982 CHU
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, NY 1891 CHU
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church 1891 CHU
Baptismal Record of German Flats Reformed Church Arthur C. M. Kelly 1983 CHU
Baptismal Record of Kinderhook Reformed Church Arthur C. M. Kelly 1985 CHU
Baptismal Record of Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, NY Arthur C. M. Kelly 1970 CHU
Baptismal Record of Reformed Church, Claverack, NY Arthur C. M. Kelly 1970 CHU
Baptismal Record of St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck Arthur C. M. Kelly 1968 CHU
Barn Yard Year Fred Lape 1950 SPLA
Baron Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General and Drill Master Continental Army William North 1990 B
Baron Von Steuben's Revolutionary War Drill Manual Frederick William Baron Van Seuben 1955 NF
Battle Cry of Freedom McPherson, James 1988 SPCW
Battlefields of the Civil War 1961 MAP
Before Garages Warren Liddle 1990 SPLA
Bicentennial, County of Schoharie 1995 LH
Biographical Review, Volume XXXIII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Schoharie, Schenectady and Green Counties, New York 1899
Bits'n Pieces of Brunswick History 1988 LH
Black Culture and Black Consciousness Lawrence W. Levine 1978 SPAA
Black Education in NYS From Colonial to Modern Times Carleton Mabee 1979 SPAA
Black Indian Slave Narratives Patrick Minges 2004 SPAA
Black Religion and American Evangelicalism Milton C. Sernett 1975 SPAA
Black Trials Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the end of caste Weiner, Mark 2004 SPAA
Black Writers and the American Civil War Richard A Long, ed. 1988 SPAA
BlackRiver and Northern New York Conference Memorial Albert C. loucks 1923 SPCH
Blenheim History 1710-1991 1994 LH
Blood and Stone Warren Liddle 1991 SPLA
Body Boots and Britches Folktales, Ballads and Speech from Country New York Harold W. Thompson 1979 Reprint LH
Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth Century New York Nancy Grey Osterud 1991 LH
Bookcraft, Simple Techniques for the Maintenance and Repair of Books 2007 SPOFF
Boston's Abolitionists Kerri Greenidge 2006 SPAA
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