At the time, her father wrote to her mother, Lauren Collins Wolcott, and voiced his concerns and hopes regarding how the vaccine might affect her.

[2] Mary Ann Wolcott met Chauncey Goodrich (1759-1815), a lawyer and politician who was married briefly to Abigail Smith, who died in 1788.

[2] In New York, she visited her brother Oliver Wolcott Jr., who would become the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

[2] The Litchfield Ledger states, "Her personality is captured through her correspondence with friends and family where she can write very sarcastically, mostly to lighten the mood of letter.

[2] Goodrich and her sister Laura Woolcott Mosely, both described as brilliant, were said by Joseph Cooke Jackson to have, accomplished so much for American society, education, letters, the Church, the army, the bench, the bar, and governments — state and national.