After he resigned as mayor, Claiborne appointed him as Probate Court judge for the Orleans Territory, a position he continued to hold after Louisiana became a state.

The home is near the "bayou bridge" which Governor Claiborne ordered the military "to permit no Negroes to pass or repass the same," during the event known as the 1811 slave uprising.

[4][5] Jacques Pitot is not properly remembered for his role as president of the Orleans Parish police jury (comparable to the head of a 'county commission' elsewhere), when during the War of 1812, on January 31, 1814, he authorized the re-enlisting of free people of color into the local militia.

[6][7] This was a bold move, coming eighteen months after Louisiana had become a state and less than seven years after Orleans Territorial Governor Claiborne had been wounded in a duel with his nemesis, Daniel Clark.

Clark's challenge was based on Claiborne's recognition of the militia battalion of free men of color in 1804, shortly after the United States took possession of the formerly French province.