Barratt's Chapel Museum houses a research library emphasizing Methodist history and the archives of the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference. The archives contain a wide variety of material dating from the eighteenth century to the present, including membership records of closed churches, annual conference records, sermons, memoirs, and personal papers of, among others, Ezekiel Cooper and Bishop Levi Scott. These facilities are open to the public and are used by many persons doing Methodist-related genealogy, writing local church histories, and pursuing other Methodist research.

If time permits, the curator will help with very limited research requests. If you contact us by e-mail, please include your mailing address. If you plan on doing more extensive research, please contact the curator to make an appointment.

The following lists of materials in the archives and library are available. (Please note that these are lists, not searchable databases. Some of them are rather long.)

• Local Church Records
• Annual Conference Records
• Personal Papers
• Works on Methodist history and theology
• Hymnals
• Biographies
• Sunday School Literature
• Periodicals

If you are doing research on Methodist-related subjects, you may also want to contact the United Methodist Archives at Drew University.

If you are researching the genealogy of a Methodist minister, the Archives Center will search their records for a fee of $25.