Excerpt from Poems of the Delaware Peninsula The author of these Delaware poems and Tales of the Chesapeake and the novel, The Entailed Hat, Delaware compositions, was born at Georgetown, Sussex county, January 30, 1841, of parents from Worcester county, Md. His father, Rev. Stephen Townsend, wasa traveling Methodist pastor and had previously been a carpenter and builder at Snow Hill, and preacher at that place, at Cambridge and at Princess Anne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.