After Yoshisada NITTA entered Musashi Province to defeat the Kamakura Shogunate, and was crushed by the Kamakura Hojo Army at the Bubaigawara War, the Matsuda family joined the army of Yoshisada NITTA along with the partisan army of Sagami Province.
1333年新田義貞が鎌倉幕府を討つ為に武蔵国に入り分倍河原の戦い(鎌倉時代)で鎌倉北条軍に敗れた後、松田一族は相模国の同志軍と共に新田義貞軍に参陣。