The Eastly Tribe: A Novel About a Young Boy Grabbed by the British Navy

By Arthur C. Eastly

1756. Walking away from the British Royal Navy was risky. Arthur Eastly was eleven years old and an aide to the captain of a warship. Finally, he had the opportunity to escape in Boston, after spending the four years he had been pressed into service thinking about how to do it. His capabilities to speak, read, and write the English language had caused the captain to send him ashore in Boston to bargain with the merchants, and he did. He left the store and promised to return. He walked out of Boston, and went north. He kept away from the main road, hidden from the few scattered travelers.
Back in England, he had been raised on the Eastly family farm before he had been kidnapped. As he escaped on American soil, he became the first Eastly he knew of in America. Now, he had to blend into the culture, work hard, and build his own family. First, he needed a new name, and it became Hank Ford. The name had to last at least as long he was alive. His first summer as a free man, he hunted, grew vegetables, and built a well-hidden log house. Hank did his best to stay hidden and very few grew to know his name. In the long years ahead, the next generation of Fords were born, grew, married, and started their own families.
1851. Hank Ford had died in 1830 and the original Arthur William Eastly was gone, which meant the stolen name was no longer being hunted. The second Greg Ford changed his name to Greg Eastly. When he married, his wife and he had four boys and the eldest was named Arthur William Eastly. Now, Greg Eastly realized that a war was brewing in the southern states. To save the Eastly Family, he would move west and start a new ranch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2RYYXGJ
• ISBN13: 9798274951388
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"