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School Teachers of Early Maryland
by Robert Barnes
MSA SC 5300

Paillotet, Joseph, opened an English and French School, and advertised a list of subjects (AMG 8 June 1773). In 1773 Joseph placed an advertisement in the Maryland Gazette offering his services as "a master of the French tongue" (Wood, 37). From 1796 to 1810 he is listed in the Baltimore City Directories as a teacher of French, translator of languages or schoolmaster (Wood, 337).

Status on Arrival: Joseph Paillotet and his wife Marguerite were settled in Annapolis in 1763. After many of their fellow exiles left for Louisiana, they remained in Maryland (Wood, p. 174).
Migration: In 1782 Paillotet moved to Baltimore where he leased part of Howard's Timber Neck from David Williamson. He surrendered this lease and leased land on Henrietta Street from Williamson in 1783. By 1790 he had been involved in several other real estate transactions (Wood, 199-201).
In 1794 a Mr. Cressin advertised in the Maryland Journal that he taught tricks at his play-room at Mr. Paillotet's dwelling in Primrose Alley near Charles street (Wood, 217).
Family: Paillotet and his wife do not seem to have had any children, but he was a sponsor at the baptism of two children, in 1785 and 1787.
Relations with Others: In 1805 Rene Pinault left all his property to Joseph Paillotet and named him executor if Paillotet would pay a legacy to Pinault's sister Radegonde in France.
Death: Joseph died in April 1814 of dropsy. He was 78. His widow Marguerite died in August 1817, age 84. Her obituary stated she was a native of Nova Scotia (Wood, 358). Her will mentioned a sister.

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