Mr. and Mrs. Mather,1 and Mrs. Hay2 dined with us. Went to the French Comedy and saw
le mariage de Figaro.
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 211while 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).
