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Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes y Nebot, 1778-after 1822:
All her life, Matilda Stoughton traveled in the finest social circles. Her father, John Stoughton, was the Spanish counsel-general in Boston and a key figure in Spanish-American relations before and during the American Revolution. While in New York, she and her husband attended a party hosted by Mrs. John Jay in 1794, where one guest noted that "they were fine as little dolls." In Philadelphia in 1795, the two were at a dinner given by George Washington, and there a fellow diner commented that she was "brilliant with diamonds." After their return to Spain in 1796, she and her husband, who became a member of the Royal Guards and was made a knight of the Order of Carlos III in 1803, spent much of their time at his family's ancestral estate near Palma, Majorca.
Gilbert Stuart, 1794 |