He has these votes as he and the other family members know that Abby and Phin will always vote with him, the former to retain his favor and the latter out of fear regardless of Phin's true thoughts as their father always convinces out of coercion. He, however, likes to portray himself as being fair and democratic, all important family matters which are decided on by a family vote. He has a "my way or the high way" mentality about most things in life, most specifically about running a farm, he believing his experience trumping everything else. Widowed Old Man Matthews, who has lived his entire life as a farmer, has moved his family of himself and his four young adult to adolescent offspring - Deborah, Phineas, Abigail and Susan - to a just purchased farm in Millwood, following the ecological demise of their last farm on which he was able to collect insurance.
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