Matt Tyler, a simple cobbler’s apprentice in Boston, finds himself caught up in major events of the Revolutionary War from the siege of Boston to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Filled with exciting action on land and at sea.
A pseudonym used by Leonard Wibberley. All books published with Funk & Wagnalls, New York:
Mark Toyman's Inheritance, 1960 The River of Pee Dee Jack, 1962 Quest of the Otter, 1963 Matt Tyler's Chronicle, 1966 The "Ann and Hope" Mutiny, 1966 Eusebius the Phoenician, 1969
Exciting battles on land and sea, generals and spies, a courageous pirate and a cowardly captain, Red Coats and Pennsylvania Riflemen, and a little romance and heartbreak—all figure into this high-spirited tale of America's struggle for independence.