Captured by Wampanoag Indians at the age of six, Matt was raised in a French-Canadian "prayer town" in upper Vermont. As a boy he always dreamed that he might sprout wings and fly away from that place. His big break came at the age of 15 when, mistaken for a runaway alve, he was seized by bounty hunters and brought back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he now resides with a wife and three children.