The Mathews Family by Trana Mathews
Their lives have been intertwined with American history since their beginnings in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As a young child, Increase witnessed the birth of the United States.
Along with his mother and siblings, he remains on the farm while their older male relatives join the ranks of the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War ended, social and political unrest continued throughout central Massachusetts during Shays’s Rebellion.
With the opening of the Northwest Territory, his uncle Brigadier-General Rufus Putnam, brother-in-law Captain Jonathan Stone, and older brother John Mathews are among the first 48 men to settle in Ohio in 1788.
This early American historical novel includes transcripts of actual letters written between family members and Mathews/Matthews genealogical records.
