Matilda Lee was born at Stratford Hall to Philip and Elizabeth Steptoe Lee. Here she enjoyed a delightful childhood, she was schooled in dance, music, reading, writing, math, and learned several languages, she was the apple of her father's eye, her life changed suddenly when her father died. She found herself to be the heir of a large plantation, becoming a wife and mother herself after the Revolutionary War. You will enjoy reading about her triumphs, her losses, and how the family moves on married to an ambitious and famous man.