On one of these occasions he intended to visit his old friends and hosts, the Lesderniers, but the difficulty of finding a conveyance, and the rumor that the old gentleman was away from home, interfered with his purpose.
He remembered their kindness, and later attempted to obtain pensions for them from the United States government.
But the time now arrived when the current of his domestic life was permanently diverted, and set in other channels.

In May, 1789, he married Sophie Allegre, the daughter of William Allegre of a French Protestant family living at Richmond.

The father was dead, and the mother took lodgers, of whom Gallatin was one.

For more than a year he had addressed her and secured her affections.

Her mother now refused her consent, and no choice was left to the young lovers but to marry without it.