Excerpt from The Registers of the Parish Church of Calverley, in the West-Riding of the County of York: With a Description of the Church, and a Sketch of Its History As regards the interesting topic of the poet Longfellow, and his alleged connection with this district, I confess to feeling considerable doubts as to the precise point at which his branch left the parent stock and settled in America, and should thankfully receive corrections of, and additions to, my present information. 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.