Publisher's Synopsis
"Based on author's research into her own family roots that started in Massachusetts in the late 1600s, William, The Patriarch, is Nancy Shattuck's reimagining of her own family's trials and life through the fictional Sherborn family. It was a time when the wilderness and danger was a stone throws away from the little New England village of Watertown where the series begins. This is Book One of The Watertown Chronicles and portrays William's perspective of the issues of his day. He was a strong-willed but intelligent man who knew that moving alone from his family in England would bring challenges in America. Nonetheless, he persevered as a weaver, building his and wife Susanna's brood to ten children, along the way demonstrating the characteristics of those who lead with both heart and mind but recognized the value of hard work and dedication to wife and family. Susanna, whom William met and married in America, also portrays the hardines
