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Lolotte Montreuil, a free woman of color, owned a lot, with a small house and other buildings, in Tremé on Marais Street, between St. Philip and Ursulines. She also owned a slave, Elsey (alias Delcey), age 27. In 1839, she wrote her will, which tells us that she never married and had no children. She also wrote that her parents were enslaved at the time of their deaths. She herself was born into slavery, but was emancipated by her “old mistress,” Madame Manette Macarty, the widow of Francois Montreuil, in 1827 when she was 34 years old. We also know from her will that in 1827, soon after her own emancipation, Lolotte was able to purchase her sister, Adele, from Madame Montreuil. The will names Adele as her heir. This page from the inventory of her estate describes the sale of her property after her death.

(Inventory of Lolotte Montreuil. Orleans Parish Court of Probates, 1844)