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Following the death of Jean Baptiste Colon dit LaViolette, Marguerite Praux did remarry on April 4, 1725 to Claude Pinsede dit Boulonnois (CIC MB l:56b-2). From this marriage at least one child was born, Claude Pinsede, Jr. (CIC BB l:38a-l).
Laurent Conrade Wiltz, husband of Marie Anne Colon, was a native of the town of Ezenache ?, Saxony as established in the record of the marriage of his daughter, Marguerite Wiltz on June 7, 1759 to Jean Claude Favre (CIC MB l:42-b). Saxony was then a German province and while the name of the town is poorly written in the cited record, it could have been Ebersbach located to the east of Dresden, Germany. It should also be noted that the country of Luxembourg has two towns named Wiltz and Echternach. In the May 30, 1735 marriage record of Laurent Conrad Wiltz and Marie Anne Colon cited on page 8, his parents are named as Jean Letoy Wiltz and Christine Franeque of Esnacl, Saxony. In Old Mobile, Jay Higginbothan also discusses these same families.
Jean Claude Favre owned large tracts of land in the area of Mobile, Alabama, Hancock County, Mississippi and St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. American State Papers, Vol. Ill, page 390, states that he once owned 1200 acres of land in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana; that he had received the lands as the result of a British Patent dated April 10, 1771. The land was being claimed by "The Heirs of C. Favre" in the Land Office at St. Helena, Louisiana and dated March 17, 1820. In the book entitled British Development of West Florida, by Howard, page 85, it is stated John Favre once owned 500 acres of land located on the Pearl River about 5 leagues above the mouth". This notation was made of record on December 13, 1767.
In 1776 a Luis Boisdore filed a lawsuit against Jean Favre in New Orleans over the ownership of a slave named "Luison". The case continues until 1783 when the Widow Favre settles with Mr. Boisdore. Then in 1783, a Succession suit was filed against the Estate of Jean Claude Favre thereby indicating that Jean Claude Favre died circa 1782. These records are to be found in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, October 1928, Vol. II No. 4, at page 668. Marguerite Wiltz, Widow of Jean Claude Favre, died July 28, 1802 at age 65 years (SLC Record of Interments (1793-1803) page 115 Act 1019).