Dr. Mathew and his wife the celebrated Maria Reynolds having both paid the debt of nature a number of years ago. Mrs. Mathew, soon after she was married to the Doctor experienced a great change in her mind. She became serious sedate and religious without hypocrisy. She joined the Methodist Church, but retained all her former gentleness of manner. Her former life and adventures being only known to a few of her sincere friends, who had long ago buried the knowledge in oblivion; she enjoyed both for her own sake, and as the wife of a highly respected Physician, a well deserved rank in society, and the love and good will of all who were acquainted with her.
Apparently this memoirist was smitten with Maria, too. Historian Broadus Mitchell summed it up for all who look closely at that scandal-bedeviled period in American history and one of the enigmatic women central to it: “The entreaties of Maria were calculated to fetch men less responsive than Hamilton,” wrote the Hamilton biographer, “and awake a partiality in the male reviewer to this day when she has so long been dust.”
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