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
Dusquanox 1965 1965 EDU
Dusquanox 1966 1966 EDU
Dusquanox 1967 1967 EDU
Dusquanox 1999 1999 EDU
Dusquanox 2001 2001 EDU
Dusquanox 2002 2002 EDU
Dutch Architecture near albany The Polgreen photographs Shirley W. Dunn Allison P. Bennett 1996 LH
Dutch Barns of New York Vincent J. Schafer 1994 Reprint LH
Dutch Schultz and His Lost Catskill's Treasure John Conway 2000 LH
Dutches County Commemorative Biographical Record LH
Early American Crafts and Trades - 23 Illustrations Peter Stockham 1976 NF
Early Cooperstown and the Methodist Episcopal Church Alberty Clarke SPCH
Early Eighteenth Century Palantine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle 1970 LH
Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle 1965 LH
Early Families of Herkimer County, New York; Descendents of Burnetsfield Palatines William V. H. Barker 1986 GEN
Early Furniture in Upper Canada Village Jeanne Minhinnick 1764 NF
Early Histories and Descriptions of Oneida County, NY Sleeman, G. Martin 1990 LH
Early History of Potsdam Marguerite Curley Chapman 1956 LH
Early Period Barns Moved and Restored Richard W. Babcock 1981 LH
Echoes from "The Hills of Schoharie" Billy O'Cair 1948 LH
Echoes From "The Hills of Schoharie" Part II Billy O'Cair 1963 LH
Ed Scribners Free Street Movie Revival and Dedication of the Scribner Building 17 August 1995 LH
Education in Alaska : Report of the Commisioner of Education for the year 1882-83 Sheldon Jackson 1884 SPSJ
Education in Alaska 1897-98 Sheldon Jackson 1899 SPSJ
Education in Alaska, 1890-94; Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Sheldon Jackson SPSJ
Education in Alaska, 1895-97; Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Sheldon Jackson SPSJ
Effective Promotion Michelle Caulle 1977 NF
Effects of the Civil War on Farming in Michigan Marks S. Joseph, ed. 1965 SPCW
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Water Supply of the City of NewYork 1924 AR
Eighty Years and More Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1971 B
Eliphalet Nott Codman Hislop 1971 B
Embury United Methodist Church Richard M. Wilson 1995 LH
Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the Village of Esperance, Couty of Schoharie, NY Jan. 1898 1898 MUN
Esperance Its Past, Its Future and Its Museum Kenneth DeKay LH
Esperance Sloansville United Methodist Church 1977 LH
Esperance Special Telephone Directory New York Telephone 1965 DIR
Esperance-Sloansville United Methodist Church
Esperance-Sloansville United Methodist Church 1835-1985 Ken Jones, comp. 1985 Reprint LH
Esperance, A Brief History Dorothy Edwards 1988 LH
Esperance, Its Past, Its Future and Its Museum Kenneth DeKay LH
Esperance: Its Past, its future and its museum Kenneth DeKay LH
Ethnohistory and Social Change: A Case Study from the Colonial Frontier of New York David Guldenzopf 1982 LH
Eulogium on the Late Gov. John A. King, Delivered Before the New York State Agricultural Society at its Annual Exhibition at Buffalo 3d, 1867 John Stanton Gould 1867 B
Evidence Explained; Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace Elizabeth Shown Mills 2007 SPOFF
Excerpts from the E. E. Brownell Collection; Genealogical Records of Brownell and Allied Families Elijah Ellsworth Brownell 1963 GEN
Executiner's Current - Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair Richard Moran 2002 NF
Exhibit Labels, An Interpretive Approach Beverly Serrell 1996 SPOFF
Extracted from Revised history of Harlem (City of New York, Its Origin and Early Annals James Riker 1904 GEN
Extracts from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 1816 SPCH
Facts About Alaska Sheldon Jackson 1903 SPSJ
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