She liked to tell in her old age of a dinner which John Hancock gave for her father and her, in Boston, when she was a girl.

She described her dress with great minuteness, and added naively, "Didn't I look pretty ?" My mother, who was married in 1812, knew very intimately many of her father's and mother's old friends who had been distinguished in the public service in the Revolutionary period and the Administration of Washington and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
She knew very well the family of John Jay.

He and his wife were visitors at my grandmother's after their return from Spain.

My mother was intimate in the household of Oliver Ellsworth as in a second home.

His children were her playmates.
She was also very intimate indeed with the family of Senator Hillhouse, whose daughter Mary was one of her dearest friends.
Senator Hillhouse held a very high place in the public life of Connecticut in his day.