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In Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road, Volume 6 of the New Orleans Architecture series, Roulhac Toledano and Mary Louise Christovich write: “There are hundreds of examples of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century ownership of large and small land areas in Faubourg Tremé by free persons of color."

Celeste Montreuil (alias Margaret Montegut), a free woman of color, died in New Orleans in 1819, leaving no direct heirs; she never married and had no children. Her nieces and nephews petitioned the Court of Probates to be put into possession of the lot of ground she owned on Royal Street, worth $2500.

(Inventory of Celeste Montreuil. Orleans Parish Court of Probates, 1819)