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[25th.]
Docno: DQA01d657
Date: 1784-08-25
Wednesday dined at the Abbé de Chalut's.
Thursday [26th].
Docno: DQA01d658
Date: 1784-08-26
Went to Gregson's for Watches. He was not at home.
[27th.]
Docno: DQA01d659
Date: 1784-08-27
Friday dined with the Abbés at Passi.
Saturday[28th].
Docno: DQA01d660
Date: 1784-08-28
We had a large Company to dine with us.1
1. The company included the Abbés Arnoux, Chalut, and Mably, Benjamin Franklin, David Hartley, and John Paul Jones (AA2, Jour. and Corr.
, 1:17).
[30th.]
Docno: DQA01d661
Date: 1784-08-30
Monday afternoon went into Paris. Subscribed for the Journal de Paris. Drank tea with Mrs. Valnais.1
1. Mrs. Joseph Dupas de Iden de Valnais, née Eunice Quincy (1760–1793), daughter of Henry Quincy (1727–1780) and distant cousin of JQA. Eunice married Valnais in 1781 while he served as French consul in Boston. He was recalled to France shortly thereafter (
Descendants of Edmund Quincy, comp. Holly, p. 8; Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates
, 14:667–670).
Wednesday September 1st.
Docno: DQA01d662
Date: 1784-09-01
Dined at Dr. Franklin's.
[2d.]
Docno: DQA01d663
Date: 1784-09-02
Thursday morning went into Paris.
Friday [3d].
Docno: DQA01d664
Date: 1784-09-03
1. Samuel Mather and his wife, Margarette (Gerrish) Mather; he was the son of the Rev. Samuel Mather. Young Samuel had been chief clerk of the Boston customs office until he fled to England with the loyalists, but he returned to Massachusetts after his father's death (Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates
, 7:233).
2. Mrs. Katharine Hay, wife of Capt. John Hay and daughter of Daniel Farnham, a tory lawyer in Newburyport. She was a traveling companion of the Mathers
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while in France (Thomas Aston Coffin to Mary Aston Coffin [Mrs. William Coffin], 21 March 1786, MHi:Thomas Aston Coffin Coll.; Samuel Jr. to Rev. Samuel Mather, 7 May 1785, MHi:Samuel Mather Coll.; Currier, Newburyport
, 2:258–260).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/