Wednesday 25th. Exercised on Horse-back between Breakfast & dinner—in which returning I called upon Mr. Jay and Genl. Knox on business and made informal visits to the Govr., Mr. Izard, Genl. Schuyler, and Mrs. Dalton. The following Company dined with me. viz.
Doctr. Johnson & Lady and daughter (Mrs. Neely)—Mr. Izard & Lady & Son—Mr. Smith (So. Carolina) & Lady—Mr. Kean & Lady and the Chief Justice Mr. Jay.
After which I went with Mrs. Washington to the Dancing Assembly at which I stayed until 10 Ock.
mrs. neely: William Samuel Johnson’s eldest daughter Charity Johnson (d. 1810) had married Rev. Ebenezer Kneeland of Stratford, Conn. (, 39).
In 1767 Sen. Ralph Izard had married Alice Delancey (1745–1832) of New York. The son who accompanied them today was Henry Izard (1771–1826), George Izard (1776–1828), or, less likely, their youngest son, four-year-old Ralph Izard (1785–1824). Also in the party was the Izard’s second daughter Charlotte Izard (1770–1792), who had married Sen. William Loughton Smith in 1786 ( [1], 404).
John Kean (1756–1795), of South Carolina, had served in the Continental Congress 1785–87, and in Aug. 1789 GW appointed him one of the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and the individual states (, 1:17). He married Susan Livingston (d. 1833), a niece of New Jersey Governor William Livingston, in 1786.